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Jew-hating Cornell student Austin Franco gets cold-shoulder, ‘dirty looks’ from peers as he insists he’s a campus celebrity
New York Post ^ | Sep. 12, 2026 | Sonya Gugliara

Posted on 09/12/2026 10:08:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The antisemitic Cornell University student who went viral for declaring that he’s “not interested in working for a Jew” has become a pariah among his peers — yet insisted this week he’s a campus celebrity, The Post has learned.

Austin Franco, whose unrelenting hate against the Jewish community made headlines, has been faced with hostility since returning to the upstate college for his junior year.

“He’s been getting dirty looks, sitting alone in class,” one student, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Post. The Ivy’s student-run newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, slammed the hater as a “grifter” who’s “profiting off of performative outrage” in an op-ed called “Franco’s Run Around the Media,” published Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; cornell; progressive
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1 posted on 09/12/2026 10:08:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

If you have to ‘insist’ that you are a celebrity, then you ain’t...............


2 posted on 09/12/2026 10:24:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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