Exclusive | Jew-hating Cornell student Austin Franco gets cold-shoulder, dirty looks from peers as he insists hes 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 19...