A pupil from Cornell College has been within the information for just a few weeks now due to an antisemitic comment he made a few potential employer.
Right here is the backstory from the Cornell Daily Sun in June:
Pupil Writes ‘Not Keen on Working for a Jew’ on Handshake, Cornell Reviews Bias Incident
The College reported Austin Franco ’28 to the Workplace of Civil Rights for a bias incident wherein he responded to a job provide with “Not serious about working for a jew. Thanks.” on Handshake, in response to a June 8 X put up 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 progress/gross sales function at Einhorn’s actual property startup, VrfyID, on Could 26 by means of Handshake, a digital hiring platform, in response to 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 instances 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 serious about working for a jew. Thanks.”
The scholar in query right here, just lately appeared on the Piers Morgan Uncensored present and though it appeared like Piers was attempting to present the scholar an opportunity to elucidate himself, he simply made it worse and Piers went off on him.
Partial transcript:
Austin Franco: I’ve had sufficient experiences that had been displeasing, that I didn’t need to be round them. , it’s only a choice and I don’t assume there’s something fallacious with that.
, if you happen to had an issue with Asian folks or midgets, proper, like you understand – Let’s say you’re round ten midgets, proper? And all of them are actually imply to you, they step in your toes. Proper? You’re gonna say, OK, I don’t need to be round you anymore. And in case your boss is one way or the other a midget, you’re gonna say, I don’t need to give you the results you want since you’re a midget.
It won’t be a pleasant factor to say, however is it actually value shedding our marbles over this, just like the Jewish group did inside America? Saying, we’re gonna make this child unemployable? Let’s spoil his life, let’s kick him out of Cornell? I imply it’s actually ridiculous.
Piers Morgan: Really, if you happen to don’t thoughts me saying, what you simply mentioned, is extra ridiculous, isn’t it?
I imply, what on earth has this received to do with… with… as you place it, midgets?I simply discover it extremely miserable {that a} younger man given the privilege that you simply’ve had, to go to a prime college, may very well be this thick. Or worse, not care about what you’re saying and the implications to an enormous variety of folks world wide who see a younger, conceited, child, who needs to overtly espouse antisemitism in interviews like this.
And disgrace on you, and disgrace on everybody that has made you want this.
Watch the video beneath:
Piers Morgan speaks to the Ivy League pupil who went viral for saying ‘he’s not serious 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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