Agreed.

I think a lot of people don’t realise that academic texts, especially in the humanities, are sometimes 90% quotes of someone else work. It’s easy to paraphrase someone a bit too close for comfort, and cite the previous work insufficiently or improperly.

This being said, even if this poor guy did plagiarise blatantly, hardly a national news story. Something that could have been dealt with internally and reported on when it was resolved. Quite obviously a racist right wing witch hunt.