Austin Franco, a Cornell University student who drew widespread criticism for antisemitic statements, is reportedly facing social isolation from his peers upon his return to campus for his junior year. Despite claims of being shunned, Franco asserts he is a campus celebrity and that his return has been "pleasant."

Students have reported observing Franco enduring "dirty looks" and sitting alone in classes. The Cornell Daily Sun, the university's student-run newspaper, published an op-ed characterizing Franco as a "grifter" who is "profiting off of performative outrage."

"It’s pretty clear that everyone’s turned against him," said Ezra Galperin, a senior who also wrote an op-ed for the student paper. Galperin argued that Franco's actions were not a mere bid for attention, noting that Franco had opportunities to apologize but instead defended his remarks on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

Franco, however, maintains a different perspective on his campus experience. He told The Post that he has been asked for autographs and has made new friends, stating, "I haven’t noticed a difference." He also claimed to be considered a "sex symbol" by some students.

Franco has continued to express inflammatory views online. On August 17, he posted an image of children performing the Bellamy salute in 1941, accompanied by the caption, "Bring back the Bellamy salute."

In a September 8 post, Franco advocated for "white men" to "organize outside the system and build their own fraternities." He also made a claim about Cornell's admissions, stating, "Cornell Admissions, not accounting for Jews and legacies, accepts around 3% straight White men at best... Most of the so-called Whites all have crypto-Jew last names or are mixed blood."

Franco later stated that his statistic regarding the percentage of white male students was derived from his own calculations using publicly available demographic data from the university.

Sophomore Sofia Eliasi questioned the university's response to antisemitism, stating, "When someone repeatedly makes and then defends and doubles down upon antisemitic statements and subsequently returns to that community, I think that there’s no question that students will have concerns about the standards that the community purports to uphold."

Franco, who reportedly relocated from his parents' home in Virginia, has raised nearly $40,000 through two crowdfunding campaigns on GiveSendGo.

The brothers who were the subject of Franco's initial remarks, Aiden and Gabe Einhorn, have focused on their business, VyrfID, which has since relaunched as Nessoo. "The hate was for a couple of days, but the amount of people that reached out wanting to support us... has been very positive," Gabe Einhorn said.

Cornell University has declined to comment on the matter.