Exclusive | Jew-hating Cornell student Austin Franco gets cold-shoulder, ‘dirty looks’ from peers as he insists he’s a campus celebrity
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.
“Hate favors hate. Grifter culture — profiting off of performative outrage — feeds off hate. As recent events have shown, Cornell has become a flash point for grift,” the piece reads.
“It’s pretty clear that everyone’s turned against him,” said senior Ezra Galperin, 21.
Galperin also penned an op-ed for the student paper titled “Austin Franco and Us.”
“This isn’t a case of some kid saying something stupid for attention,” he wrote in the Aug. 28 piece.
“He had multiple opportunities to apologize. Instead, he invoked physiognomy, which is widely considered a pseudoscience. He defended his remarks before millions of people on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
Franco described himself as a campus celebrity.
“It’s been pleasant,” he claimed to The Post when asked how his semester has been so far. “I’ve been asked for my autograph and made new friends.
“I haven’t noticed a difference.”
He even claimed that he’s become a sex symbol on campus, with students allegedly telling him that he’s “hot,” “cute” and “giga based.”
And he continues to post hateful comments online.
On Aug. 17, he posted a black and white photo of American school children doing the Bellamy salute in 1941 during the Pledge of Allegiance. America stopped using the gesture because it looks identical to the Nazi salute.
“Bring back the Bellamy salute,” Franco wrote.
In another unhinged rant posted on Sept. 8, Franco wrote: “White men need to organize outside the system and build their own fraternities.
“Cornell Admissions, not accounting for Jews and legacies, accepts around 3% straight White men at best (I have only met one in my entire time at Cornell). Most of the so-called Whites all have crypto-Jew last names or are mixed blood.”
Franco later claimed he arrived at the 3% straight white male stat by doing his own math using demographics publicly disclosed by the Ivy.
“I think his enrollment at Cornell raises a much larger question about how universities are responding to antisemitism,” sophomore Sofia Eliasi, 18, said.
“When someone repeatedly makes and then defends and doubles down upon antisemitic statements and subsequently returns to that community, I think that there’s no question that students will have concerns about the standards that the community purports to uphold.”
Franco, who hails from Virginia and was recently booted from his parent’s $1.75 million home, has collected nearly $40,000 between two different GiveSendGo fundraisers.
As for Aiden and Gabe Einhorn, the Jewish brothers on the receiving end of Franco’s hate when he turned down a job at their startup real estate platform VyrfID — which recently relaunched as Nessoo — said they’ve been focused on growing their business amid the media firestorm.
“The hate was for a couple of days, but the amount of people that reached out wanting to support us, introduce us to landlords, brokers, and property managers has been very positive,” Gabe said.
Cornell University declined to comment.
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