A scholar from Cornell College has been within the information for a number of weeks now due to an antisemitic comment he made a couple of potential employer.
Right here is the backstory from the Cornell Daily Sun in June:
Scholar Writes ‘Not All for Working for a Jew’ on Handshake, Cornell Experiences Bias Incident
The College reported Austin Franco ’28 to the Workplace of Civil Rights for a bias incident through which he responded to a job supply with “Not excited about working for a jew. Thanks.” on Handshake, in line with a June 8 X submit from Gabe Einhorn, co-founder and CEO of the corporate which Franco was accepted to. The Solar spoke to Franco and Einhorn following the incident.
Franco initially utilized to a development/gross sales function at Einhorn’s actual property startup, VrfyID, on Could 26 by way of Handshake, a digital hiring platform, in line with Einhorn. He was accepted within the first spherical and Gabe’s brother Aiden, who co-founded VrfyID, requested to arrange a time for a gathering on Could 29. Franco responded the identical day with occasions he was obtainable. Gabe informed The Solar that each him and Aiden then supplied two dates for college kids to attend, neither of which Franco went to. When Aiden adopted up on June 8 to ask Franco about his attendance, Franco responded with “Not excited about working for a jew. Thanks.”
The scholar in query right here, lately appeared on the Piers Morgan Uncensored present and though it appeared like Piers was making an attempt to provide the scholar an opportunity to clarify himself, he simply made it worse and Piers went off on him.
Partial transcript:
Austin Franco: I’ve had sufficient experiences that have been displeasing, that I didn’t need to be round them. You already know, it’s only a choice and I don’t assume there’s something unsuitable with that.
You already know, when you had an issue with Asian individuals or midgets, proper, like you realize – Let’s say you’re round ten midgets, proper? And all of them are actually imply to you, they step in your ft. Proper? You’re gonna say, OK, I don’t need to be round you anymore. And in case your boss is in some way a midget, you’re gonna say, I don’t need to be just right for you since you’re a midget.
It may not be a pleasant factor to say, however is it actually price dropping our marbles over this, just like the Jewish neighborhood did inside America? Saying, we’re gonna make this child unemployable? Let’s smash his life, let’s kick him out of Cornell? I imply it’s actually ridiculous.
Piers Morgan: Really, when you don’t thoughts me saying, what you simply mentioned, is extra ridiculous, isn’t it?
I imply, what on earth has this acquired to do with… with… as you set it, midgets?I simply discover it extremely miserable {that a} younger man given the privilege that you just’ve had, to go to a prime college, might be this thick. Or worse, not care about what you’re saying and the results to an enormous variety of individuals around the globe who see a younger, boastful, child, who desires to openly espouse antisemitism in interviews like this.
And disgrace on you, and disgrace on everybody that has made you want this.
Watch the video under:
Piers Morgan speaks to the Ivy League scholar who went viral for saying ‘he’s not excited about working for Jews’.
‘You have doubled down – you are happy with it! And for that purpose, I do not give a TOSS what occurs to you!’
Full interview dropping at 7pm (BST)…@piersmorgan pic.twitter.com/zw2Aofn3i7
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) July 28, 2026
Yikes.
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