The Cambridge Professor (Professor Gopal) writes a very measured explanation of her tweet in the Guardian, 4th July;
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/04/talk-about-racism-whiteness-racial-hierarchy
What we don't see are her deleted tweets - another tweet here;
www.change.org/p/cambridge-university-sack-cambridge-university-professor-priyamvada-gopal
In the Guardian, Professor Gopal refers to scholar, Noel Ignatiev several times;
"Studies of “whiteness” are not new. Respected scholars, such as the late Noel Ignatiev, author of How the Irish Became White, and David Roediger, have studied the history and sociology of whiteness in great detail. Ignatiev, who was Jewish, wrote about the “abolition of whiteness”, not as a call to eliminate white people but a system of racial entitlement that necessarily relied on the exclusion of those deemed to be lesser. For Ignatiev, whiteness was not a biological fact so much as a kind of ideological club where “the members go through life accepting the benefits of membership, without thinking about the cost” to others." ...
"This is why, at the same time as I reinforced Ignatiev’s call for the abolition of “whiteness”, I repeated that Brahmin supremacy in India must also be abolished."
The Guardian have added a link - Ignatiev is described as a "Marxist radical;"
www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/noel-ignatievs-long-fight-against-whiteness
I googled - despite Professor Gopal telling readers that Ignatiev was Jewish there is a back story; Ignatiev caused an upset as a non-resident tutor at Harvard in 1992 - he objected to the University funding a kosher toaster reserved for Jewish students, and then to the University's reimbursement of Hillel meals:
"It seems to me that the logical extension of my argument is to oppose Harvard's funding of Hillel meals," Ignatiev said. "If that is the logical extension of what I'm saying, then I do not shrink from saying that and I do not shrink from the consequences."
Ignatiev "requested the removal of either the oven or the sign labelling its use as restricted, on the grounds that the appliance's use is restricted along sectarian lines."
"The tutor said in his letter that the purchase of the oven by the University demonstrates "improper partiality towards one group."
"There is nothing in the manufacturer's instructions accompanying the toaster oven saying that the oven will be destroyed if someone lays a pork chop in it."
Some Jewish students were "disappointed that a house tutor would take a position so insensitive to a segment of the student body."
"I was shocked to hear that he opposes my ability to eat in the way my background requires, Galper said, adding that he would feel uncomfortable approaching Ignatiev as a tutor on issues of concern to him as a traditional Jew."
Although the University appeared to defend Ignatiev at the time, his contract was not renewed;
www.thecrimson.com/article/1992/3/12/dunster-tutor-defends-views-on-toaster/
www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-11-11/noel-ignatiev-dies-race-whiteness