Ivy League student who refuses to work for Jewish people bizarrely moans about cell tower as he posts unhinged white supremacist screed
An anti-Semitic Cornell student who told a prospective employer he was ‘Not interested in working for a Jew’ recently posted a bizarre rant about 5G cell service, as well as a rambling white supremacist Substack article.
Austin Franco, 19, incited fury online after he turned down an interview at a tech start-up over the founder’s Jewish faith.
Gabe Einhorn, the 24-year-old chief executive of anti-fraud platform VryfID, shared the message he received from Franco on the college career platform Handshake.
A screenshot of Franco’s comment, which Einhorn posted on X, read: ‘Not interested in working for a Jew. Thanks.’ Amid outrage over his remarks, Franco has doubled down and refused to apologize or walk back his stance.
The student’s horrified parents evicted him from their $1.75 million Virginia home on August 1, with his mother, Diana, telling the New York Post: ‘We have seen our adult son fall under the influence of extremist online content.’
On August 2, after raising tens of thousands of dollars from sympathetic antisemites and moving into an apartment in Ithaca, New York, Franco posted a bizarre tweet that said: ‘Outside my window is a 5g array my head has been ringing for the past hour and i have a massive headache.’
The entitled 19-year-old went on to ask if anyone in Ithaca had a spare room where he could crash and that he would ‘just have to eat the cost’ of almost immediately moving out of the apartment he presumably leased with donated funds.
On Saturday morning, the depth of Franco’s extremist radicalization was further revealed with a Substack article he posted that was titled: Natural Hierarchy and a Better Future (Short Thoughts).
Cornell student Austin Franco, 19, sparked outrage online after he snubbed a prospective employer due to the founder’s Jewish faith
Gabe Einhorn, the 24-year-old chief executive of the tech startup VryfID, posted a screenshot of a message he received from Franco that said: ‘Not interested in working for a Jew. Thanks’
Einhorn’s tweet is pictured in full
Last week, Franco posted this bizarre tweet rambling about 5G cell service giving him a headache at the apartment he moved into after his parents kicked him out
The nearly 1,700-word piece came out swinging with its bigotry in the first sentence, which read: ‘Unknowingly or knowingly, every other race admits its own inferiority by way of its reverence for white men and women when it comes to breeding.’
A few sentences later, Franco appeared to allude to and promote eugenics when he wrote: ‘Like a bonsai tree, you must trim your own branches for a stronger and more beautiful whole to arise from within.’
The rambling and unfocused piece then aimlessly jumps between myriad topics including ballroom dancing, the online trend looksmaxxing, contemporary art, politics, technology, media, modern living and a vision of the future.
In a July 29 tweet announcing that his parents were evicting him, Franco wrote: ‘I do not regret anything I have done. If I were to die today, I would at least know that I did so believing in myself. Thank you, and may God be with you.’
Franco’s mother told the New York Post that she and her husband, Alexander, ‘love our son very much’ and said that they tried to ‘counter the online influences that have afflicted him.’
She added: ‘It should go without saying that the rest of our family finds the views he has expressed morally repugnant, and he did not derive them in any way from us.’
Franco, speaking to the Post, dismissed Diana’s statement, alleging that he had ‘in-person experiences’ that shaped his apparent antisemitic beliefs.
Two GiveSendGo online fundraisers for the antisemite have garnered a collective $37,575 as of Saturday morning.
Franco was evicted from his parents’ $1.75 million Virginia home on August 1. He moved into a new apartment with tens of thousands of dollars he received from online fundraisers
Franco has been active on X, where he has doubled down on his antisemitism. On Thursday, he posted a tweet linking to a disturbing white supremacist Substack article he wrote
Franco is reportedly still a student at Cornell despite the university condemning his remarks. Cornell’s president said the university ‘has an obligation to fiercely defend freedom of speech’
Franco is reportedly still enrolled at Cornell, even though the university president has publicly condemned his remarks.
‘As a university built on the solid foundations of our nation’s democratic freedoms, Cornell has an obligation to fiercely defend freedom of speech – even when we find that speech abhorrent,’ Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff said.
Cornell University declined to comment on Franco’s student status when approached by the Daily Mail last week but broadly condemned antisemitism.
‘Federal privacy law prohibits Cornell from disclosing specific information regarding our students,’ a spokesman said.
‘Despite the seriousness with which we take this matter, we are not able to make any further comment regarding the actions of this student, or any public statement of the university’s response.’
