Editor's Note: This column was co-written with Noah Farb ’28, a junior studying economics in the College of Arts and Sciences and the president of Cornellians for Israel. He can be contacted at nef36@cornell.edu.

On Sept. 15, Austin Franco’s new student organization, the Cornell Groypers, announced that Nick Fuentes will be giving a talk on campus on Sept. 24. The same Nick Fuentes, who said on a stream that “when it comes to the Jews, here’s the silver lining: it tends to go from zero to 60” and that “the Jews had better start being nice to people like us, because what comes out of this is going to be a lot uglier and a lot worse for them than anything that’s being said on this show,” will be speaking in the same building where Ezra Cornell, the man who founded a university “where any person can find instruction in any study” is buried. The irony of this situation cannot be overstated.

Well, that would be the case, except for one thing: this didn’t actually happen. Whatever the University’s policies are on the matter, it seemed pretty clear to us that nobody would be able to get away with bringing a neo-Nazi who incites violence to campus. Kehlani’s disinvitation from headlining Slope Day in Spring 2025 after she called Zionists “scum of the earth” and Austin Franco’s near-universal ostracization, including a........

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