Exposed the Cambridge professor's plagiarism who committed suicide - and was suspended: "Revenge"

The Jewish-American researcher Nathan Cofnas, who exposed the literary theft of Cambridge Prof. Jason Arday and led to his suicide, was suspended from Ghent University in Belgium. The university defined it as a precautionary measure while reviewing his work due to concerns of discrimination. The US ambassador to Belgium criticized: "Revenge following a report on fraud."

The Jewish-American researcher Nathan Cofnas (39), who was the first to accuse Cambridge Prof. Jason Arday of literary theft and thereby set off a chain of events that ended with Arday's suicide, was suspended over the weekend from Ghent University in Belgium, where he is doing a post-doctorate. The university defined the suspension as a "precautionary measure while reviewing his work due to concerns of discrimination." The United States ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, responded on X that this is "revenge against an American researcher following his accurate report of academic fraud." Cofnas is known in academia mainly for his work claiming that black people are genetically inclined to be less intelligent than white people, and in 2024 his work at Cambridge was terminated after he wrote that without affirmative action, black people would disappear from senior positions. Last May he posted that he was clinging to his academic career by his fingertips. After receiving an email from a colleague about Arday, he published a post showing that Arday's doctorate included passages taken from another thesis, leading to a series of investigations that confirmed his findings. Arday, who was the youngest black professor in Cambridge's history, resigned and committed suicide about a week and a half ago.