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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 15, 2026

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"Cornell student Austin Franco was doxxed by Jewish business leaders after explaining that he “didn’t want to work for a Jew,” claiming his experiences with Jews were not “pleasant,” after a NYC startup he had applied to reached out to him three times.":

After one of the cofounders, Gabe Einhorn, posted Franco’s reply with his last name blocked out, Franco was quickly identified.

Einhorn said he did not “want to ruin his life,” but wanted to “raise awareness” of antisemitism.

Franco, in a now-deleted post, said that in his personal and professional experiences, Jews were tribalistic and vengeful, and tended to ruin and bully others who opposed them.

Franco stated, “I am sure that if you indicated you didn’t want to work for someone who was White or Christian this would not have blown up…”

Franco claimed that the actions by Einhorn and the Jewish community, posting his reply, doxxing him, and then trying to investigate and uproot his personal life, vindicated his concerns that Jews do not work with others politely.

Subsequently:

I was told that "woke is dead" but it seems cancel culture is alive and well on the kosher Right. How is one supposed to take any of the clowns seriously attacking "woke leftists" when they act like this? Why is "student doesn't want to work for jews" worthy of being elevated to international news?

Steelmanning why Franco may not want to work for Jews: outside of reform circles, religious Jews contribute to the lobbying efforts of the greater Jewish community through obligatory dues at shuls, Chabad membership fees, and volitional donations. Working for a non-reform religious Jew means that your labor will likely go toward the lobbying efforts of the Jewish community. What do they lobby for? For Americans to die for Israel, for the starvation of Palestinians to go unnoticed, for costly wars, for the maintenance of the holocaust as a foundational story in the West, and for special admissions of their own group in the Ivy League. (Steelmanning why someone would prefer to work for religious non-reform Jews: their businesses are likely to do well, and they are certainly going to be anti-degeneracy.)

Working for a non-reform religious Jew means that your labor will likely go toward the lobbying efforts of the Jewish community.

Is the guy in question a non-reform religious Jew? If so, did Franco know that at the time?

He is, but I don’t know if Franco knew that.

What's the evidence that he is?

He retweeted something about being Orthodox today. And also he’s a kashrut-observant Shabbat-keeping Yeshiva grad, so the odds of him not being modern orthodox is really low. I’m not arguing that Franco’s message should have been sent, by the way.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gabe-einhorn-55b74822b_ive-never-been-more-proud-to-be-jewish-than-ugcPost-7439126105577574400-EqSR/

He's not exactly secretive about it; going to Yeshiva University (Sy Syms School of Business) is a pretty good hint.

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