Prof Lawrence Goldman, an emeritus fellow at St Peter’s College, added that Mr Scott’s actions undermine Oxford’s claim to be an open and tolerant institution.
“Last week, Vernal Scott, Oxford’s head of diversity and inclusion (sic) openly advocated the closure of a Conservative political conference,” he said.
“This week he openly supports protests that compromise the safety of Jewish students and others at Oxford. He doesn’t understand his job description.
“How the university deals with him will be a matter of great interest to many of its alumni and its Jewish donors.”
Last month, Belgian police arrived at a conference at which Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman were speaking, to shut it down after a court ruled the event could be homophobic, incite public disorder or offend minorities.
“I applaud the mayor and police of Brussels for their decision to close down this conference,” Mr Scott wrote in a since-deleted post on X, formerly Twitter.
Hundreds of faculty and staff signed letter
So far, 303 members of Oxford’s faculty and staff have signed the statement in support of the encampment.
It describes the camp as “a public-facing global education project” and calls for the university to “divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as well as from Israel’s ongoing apartheid regime against Palestinians”.
Toby Young, the director of the Free Speech Union said: “I cannot see how signing this letter is compatible with championing ‘inclusion’, given that the concept is supposed to apply to all religious, ethnic and sexual minorities at Oxford, including Jews and Israelis.”
The university has been approached for comment.