Noah Carl was at the centre of protests earlier this year after being named the Toby Jackman Newton Trust junior research fellow at Cambridge University's St. Edmund's College. The appointment sparked complaints that his writings helped “legitimise racist stereotypes”, with more than 1,000 people signing an open letter attacking his publications.
Academics have locked ranks to stand up for a controversial scholar sacked by Cambridge University's St. Edmund's College, as they lambasted the university for bowing to what they branded a witch-hunt.
Noah Carl, who was accused of conducting racist research, had his scholarship rescinded by St. Edmund's College after an inquiry into complaints about the social scientist had determined his work was “problematic”.
The College subsequently apologised for any offence caused.
The academics are accusing Cambridge of failing to defend freedom of speech or stand up to “mob rule”.
Matthew Goodwin, the author of National Populism and a politics professor at Kent University, tweeted: “Academic freedom is fine so long as you do not work on anything ‘problematic'.”
Eric Kaufmann, a politics professor at Birkbeck, University of London, described the decision as a “victory for the left-modernist inquisition based on guilt-by-association”.
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