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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For the last few weeks, Professor Mark Bray has had to brace himself when he opens up his email, |
| 0:12.1 | because he's never quite sure what kind of messages he's going to find inside. |
| 0:16.0 | The first one simply said, I'll kill you in front of your students. |
| 0:20.0 | That's simple. |
| 0:22.4 | Another one said, I'm going to burn down your house and kill you in front of your students. That's simple. Another one said, |
| 0:28.3 | I'm going to burn down your house and kill you when you run out. Mark teaches history at Rutgers University. A few years back, he wrote this book, Antifa, the anti-fascist handbook. It's a cheeky |
| 0:36.1 | title for what is essentially the history of a movement. |
| 0:40.5 | Last month, when President Trump declared Antifa was a domestic terrorist organization, |
| 0:46.3 | that is when his inbox started to fill up. |
| 0:49.7 | Not this most recent Saturday, but the previous Saturday I was watching, Yankees, Blue Jays, |
| 0:53.5 | Game 1, the playoffs, and bottom of the first, I got an email. It said something like, we're |
| 0:59.5 | watching you when it had the address. And I knew I had to leave my home. Right away. |
| 1:05.2 | Well, yeah, pretty much. |
| 1:08.7 | Mark wants to make something very clear. |
| 1:12.1 | He's not a member of Antifa. |
| 1:15.0 | After conducting extensive interviews, he certainly understands Antifa's internal logic, |
| 1:20.9 | but he's not their spokesperson. |
| 1:22.9 | Not like that matters anymore. |
| 1:25.5 | Where are you right now? |
| 1:27.7 | I'm in Spain. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm not advertising, you know, where in Spain. |
| 1:33.1 | You know, I do have security concerns. |
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