Rutgers Pays Dr Antifa a Full Salary While He Writes His Victim Book From Spain

New Jersey taxpayers are still cutting checks to a man who wrote the handbook for a designated terrorist organization.

Now that man is writing a book about how America is the real fascist threat.

What Rutgers is doing about it says everything about who that university actually answers to.

The Scam Mark Bray Is Running From an Ocean Away

Mark Bray – the Rutgers history professor who wrote Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook – fled to Spain in October 2025 and never came back.

His new book, Unpunctuated Death Threats: Notes from a Fascist Present, drops in January.

It's a memoir about being the victim.

Let that land for a moment.

The man who spent years justifying militant political violence in print, who posted on Bluesky that "only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us," is now selling himself as a refugee from American tyranny.

He chose Spain for the relocation – a country conservative critics have flagged as one of the movement's strongholds in Europe.

What Trump Did and Why Bray Ran

President Trump signed an executive order on September 22, 2025, formally designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.

The order labeled Antifa a violent, anarchist movement working to overthrow the government and directed federal agencies to go after it – including its money.

The White House was blunt about the mission: "investigate, disrupt, and dismantle."

That's the part that matters here.

Bray didn't just write a book about Antifa. He funded it. By his own account, he committed at least half the proceeds from Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook to an international Antifa legal defense fund administered by hundreds of members across eighteen countries.

When Trump's order made funding a designated terrorist organization a federal priority, Bray packed his family and booked a flight out of Newark – where federal agents stopped and questioned him before he eventually made it to Spain.

His book describes that airport encounter as leaving him "a wreck."

The Victim Playbook Is the Real Handbook

Here's what Bray is doing with this memoir.

When the radical left loses a fight – when their movement gets designated a terrorist organization, when the law starts moving in their direction – they don't defend their positions.

They become victims.

Bray's publisher describes the book as chronicling "far-right influencers, social media soldiers, and networked violence that chased the author into hiding."

He's comparing Trump's America to fascism – in a book he's writing from Spain, while still collecting a New Jersey state university paycheck.

That's the hustle: write a handbook justifying militant political violence, fund the movement with the profits, and when accountability arrives, flee the country and write a victimhood memoir – all while the taxpayer-funded salary keeps landing in your account.

Rutgers sophomore Megan Doyle wasn't buying the victim narrative. Bray fled to what she called "an Antifa hotspot," cashed in on book sales and donations, and kept his Rutgers paycheck – funded by New Jersey taxpayers – the entire time.

Rutgers hasn't fired him.

Rutgers Isn't the Only Campus Playing This Game

Bray has held his Rutgers faculty post since 2019, spending those years teaching students about the very movement his handbook helped organize.

Universities across the country have spent years housing professors who write the ideological playbooks for movements the federal government now labels domestic terrorism – then act stunned when the bill comes due.

Now Antifa is formally designated a terrorist organization, its funding sources are under federal scrutiny, and the university that employs the movement's most famous chronicler still hasn't answered the obvious question: why is he still on payroll?

If Trump's executive order means anything, the funding investigation doesn't stop at street-level organizers.

It follows the money.

And right now, that money trail runs through New Brunswick, New Jersey – and ends in Spain.

Sources:

• Rachel del Guidice, "Rutgers 'Antifa' Professor Who Fled US Over Political Atmosphere After Kirk Murder Pens Book on 'Fascist' US," Fox News, September 11, 2026.
• "Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization," White House Executive Order, September 22, 2025.
• "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Designates Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization," White House, September 22, 2025.
• "Antifa Expert at Rutgers University Says He Is Moving to Spain Because of Death Threats," Associated Press, October 2025.
• "Rutgers Turning Point USA Chapter Launches Petition to Fire Professor Called 'Dr. Antifa,'" Fox News, October 2025.