US anti-fascism expert leaves country a day after blocked from flying to Spain
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Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was told at gate his trip was cancelled after Trump threats

A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists.

Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.

‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”

No details on who canceled the flight.

  • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Here’s where I am right now - you have all these fucking backwoods yokel retard nationalists…excuse, me - PATRIOTS - spouting “IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT HERE THEN LEAVE!!”

    This guy does exactly that, and…someone tried to stop him. Unsuccessfully, but nevertheless, they tried.

    This is how you know it’s all about control.

  • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
    54·
    7 hours ago

    This is a lot of fear mongering for no reason.

    Someone social engineered the airline and got his tickets cancelled. Then he rebooked his flight and stayed in the airport hotel.

  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
    16·
    17 hours ago

    It probably would have helped if he hadnt written the op-ed about how he needed to flee the country until after fleeing the country

    Like, step one of needing to flee the country is flee the fucking country. Not opining about it to the media before the bags are packed

    • crapwittyname@feddit.uk
      16·
      16 hours ago

      It’s not his fault, mate. It’s not normal to have your flight cancelled by the powers that be because you wrote something. He can’t be blamed for not thinking of absolutely everything that might go wrong and acting on each.
      The bottom line is that he should, by law and rights, have been allowed to travel.

      • Null User Object@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 hours ago

        It’s not normal to have your flight cancelled by the powers that be because you wrote something.

        Unless you’re fleeing a fledgling fascist dictatorship. Then it’s to be expected.

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    65·
    1 day ago

    If I were in his shoes, I’d be packing up the car for a quick trip across the Canadian border.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      30·
      1 day ago

      Apparently, they’re starting to deploy CBP agents on exit routes into Canada. It seems they started doing this months ago, with predictably catastrophic impact on Canadian cross-border tourism. But the obvious subtext is that they’re looking to more tightly control the movement of everyone, including US citizens - and in light of NSPM-7, they’re probably going to try going after ideological opponents.

      So put your phone in lockdown mode before when crossing any US border, and restart it (and don’t unlock it before you’re through all border controls) so that it’s in BFU mode (this makes it a good bit more technically challenging for them to fuck with your device/scrape it for data/install any surveillance malware on it).

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        11·
        18 hours ago

        Ain’t no probably about it, Trump and Miller have already announced that they’re using terrorism charges to go after big Democrat donors and organizations.

        Almost every phone that doesn’t have security hardware is vulnerable to forensic imaging software even in BFU. Unless you have a Pixel with GrapheneOS you’re better off wiping the phone and restoring it after your traveling is complete.

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      41·
      7 hours ago

      The only terrifying thing is someone was able to social engineer the airline into canceling his flight after he was through security.

      If it was the government he wouldn’t have been able to book another flight for the following day and stay at the airport hotel.