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Famed Cambridge professor Jason Arday, in a speech given a year ago, made a series of lurid and macabre claims about threats made to his family, including “pigs’ heads in my parents’ door.” But today, with Arday now fighting accusations of rampant plagiarism and lying about his life story, corroborating evidence remains thin to nonexistent that he has indeed been subjected to a terror campaign.
Arday, 41, who in 2023 became the youngest black professor in Cambridge’s 800-year history, said in a previously unreported speech given at a British university a year ago that people opposed to a black man holding his prestigious job had sought to terrorize him out of his position. I obtained a recording of the speech from a source who requested that the precise location of the speech be kept secret to help maintain the source’s anonymity.
Recounting what he said were the “top of pops” of the threats he’s sustained (referring to the British music show), Arday said in the speech: “It goes from bullets in the post, to pigs’ heads in my parents’ door, to threats of raping my 18-year-old daughter, to being threatened at my point at work.”
Arday added, “They do not want a black person coming in the chair.” He said people emailed him and said, “We’re going to break you.” Just four days prior, he asserted, someone said, using British slang for suicide, “We’re going to...
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