“I’m sure Oriel College and Oxford University will treat these demands to no-platform Nathan Cofnas with the derision they deserve,” Lord Young of Acton, the founder and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said.
“If you profoundly disagree with someone’s views, the appropriate response is to debate with them, not silence them,” he added.
In July, the academic became the first senior figure to accuse Mr Arday publicly of plagiarism in a Substack post.
Mr Cofnas claimed Mr Arday’s PhD thesis contained “many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source”.
