Bill White accuses Ghent University of ‘scapegoating accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty’
The US ambassador to Belgium has denounced the suspension of an American academic who led plagiarism accusations against Jason Arday, the black ex-Cambridge professor found dead last week after resigning over the scandal.
Bill White, posting on X on Friday, denounced the decision by the University of Ghent as an attempt to silence Nathan Cofnas, a self-defined “race realist” who was himself sacked from his Cambridge post two years ago.
“The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him,” he wrote.
On Thursday, Cofnas announced on X that Ghent had suspended him, adding: “They will almost certainly fire me.”
