Ivy Leaguer whos not interested in working for a Jew says Cornell is welcoming him back

The disgraced Cornell University student who went viral for declining an interview with an NYC startup because he said he didn’t want to be “working for a Jew,” claims he’s returning the upstate Ivy league campus in the fall.Austin Franco, 19, the rising junior who delivered the message to VrfID’s Jewish co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn via job board site Handshake in June, told conservative nonprofit Accuracy in Media that he hardly got a slap on the wrist from Cornell.“As of now, they said there’s not anything going on on their back end.I think it’s because I didn’t say anything that could be classified as hateful,” Franco unknowingly confided to an “undercover investigator” for the organization, who lured him to a meet-up pretending to be a fellow antisemite.He said that the school reached out to him after the controversy, but no action has been taken against him.A spokesperson for Cornell referred The Post to the school’s previous statement, but declined to comment on Franco’s claim that he is returning to campus.“This incident has been referred to the Cornell Office of Civil Rights for investigation under university policy,” the Cornell spokeswoman said.

“Cornell condemns antisemitism and all forms of hatred and discrimination in the strongest possible terms.The university is steadfastly committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for every member of our community.”Cornell’s lackluster response has sparked outrage among Jewish students and leaders.Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, told The Post this reflects how alarmingly “normalized” antisemitism has become.“Cornell is a place of learning, and yet a student can openly declare that he will not work for a Jew, impose his own private boycott and still sit in its classrooms,” Schneier said.

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