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Cornell student who ‘won’t work for Jews’ is a symptom of a far darker hatred that must be stopped

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As if you needed more reasons to worry about America’s future, now we have Austin Franco.

The 19-year-old Cornell student logged on to the school’s job board recently and applied for a summer internship with a New York-based start-up.

But when invited for an interview, he declined to show up.

“Not interested in working for a Jew.”

The Ivy League school, no surprises there, released an embarrassingly idiotic statement, accusing Franco of being “in violation of the [university’s] online job board’s terms of service” and announcing it will further investigate Franco.

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The administrators in Ithaca needn’t bother: No further investigation is necessary.

Because Franco isn’t the problem.

He’s merely a symptom of something far darker, a hatred that, left unchecked, may have disastrous consequences.

What is it? Since the story broke, enraged pundits referred to Franco’s attitude as “antisemitism.”

But that, alas, is a misnomer, a distraction that, if we’re not careful, could keep us from identifying, and thereby solving, the real........

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