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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; austinfranco; cornell; israel; jew; jews; 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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To: Red Badger

Regards,

3 posted on 09/12/2026 11:51:04 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Red Badger

I think anyone who wants to be a celebrity is suspect.


4 posted on 09/12/2026 11:59:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He’s what a fascist looks like...................


5 posted on 09/13/2026 1:29:44 AM PDT by BFW
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To: nickcarraway

A virulent antisemite is now a pariah on an American college campus? And at Cornell, no less?!!

Maybe things ARE staring to change. This is encouraging.


6 posted on 09/13/2026 1:47:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

(A virulent antisemite)

Send Austin Franco to the Gaza Strip
to work for Radical Muslims


7 posted on 09/13/2026 2:31:55 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

eh...Austin made the mistake of being a white boy. If he was a swarthy Muslim he’d be considered authentic. Austin is a poser.


8 posted on 09/13/2026 2:39:05 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: nickcarraway

he said the quiet part out loud.


9 posted on 09/13/2026 2:41:53 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: nickcarraway

Two words a budding (entrepreneur) or Hollywood wannabe cannot say together: “the” and “Jews.”

Attributed to Dave Chappelle I think.


10 posted on 09/13/2026 2:44:34 AM PDT by anton
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Maybe things ARE staring to change. This is encouraging.”

The same thought crossed my mind. Dare we hope?


11 posted on 09/13/2026 3:05:20 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: nickcarraway

Tucker Carlson should drive over and take him out to lunch.


12 posted on 09/13/2026 3:07:26 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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Hey, Austin Franco?

I’ve got some bad news for you

Almighty God has the Final Say

He CANNOT be opposed NOR dissuaded

Lotsa luck trying to change His mind

You won’t be able to for all Eternity


Jeremiah 31:35-37
21st Century King James Version

35 Thus saith the Lord, Who giveth the Sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the Moon and of the Stars for a light by night, Who divideth the Sea when the waves thereof roar; the Lord of hosts is His Name:

36 “If those ordinances depart from before Me,” saith the Lord, “then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever.”

37 Thus saith the Lord: “If Heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the Earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,” saith the Lord.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2031%3A35-37&version=KJ21


13 posted on 09/13/2026 3:35:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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MORE bad news for Austin Franco:

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Zechariah 8:22-23
21st Century King James Version

22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.’

23 “Thus saith the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days it shall come to pass that ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take hold, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, “We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah%208%3A22-23&version=KJ21


14 posted on 09/13/2026 3:39:26 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; righttackle44; delchiante; ...

Ping to a couple of posts above 👆👆


15 posted on 09/13/2026 3:41:29 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

The ding dong’s parents threw him out of the house too. He is toast.

Actually I think he is mentally ill, probably schizophrenic and needs treatment. Sad.


16 posted on 09/13/2026 4:11:37 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: nickcarraway

There’s no reasoning with someone who is so self-deluded.


17 posted on 09/13/2026 4:19:53 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
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To: nickcarraway

He reminds me of the fat, ugly man who thinks and acts like he’s the high school jock with babe’s fighting to hang onto his arm in public. Except the babe’s exist in his imagination. Maybe there was a point it was true, forty years and fifty-five pounds before the discovery of beer.

Oh, and there’s a babe equivalent. The woman wearing six pounds of makeup and an embarrassing bathing suit and wrinkled skin from too much sun.

The interesting thing, former jock and former babe are disgusted by one another. Because of the self-image and complete lack of self-awareness.

Lack of self-awareness being the key here.


18 posted on 09/13/2026 4:29:40 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Oh, gosh! I said that out loud. I'm so sorry.)
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To: nickcarraway

Franco is just another misguided Latino who does more harm than good.


19 posted on 09/13/2026 5:19:44 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s not because they are suddenly not antisemite leftists.

It’s because tons of businesses decided to not recruit at Cornell.

This douche destroyed the job prospects of a whole campus of little fascists by saying the quiet part out loud.


20 posted on 09/13/2026 5:55:59 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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