If you are 19 and you say you don't want to work for a Jew, they'll spend weeks going after the family members of a random guy who shares your name.
If you are 52 and you call for 2 million Palestinians in Gaza to be starved to death and you are an elected member of Congress, such as Randy Fine, and thus have actual power, they'll spend millions of dollars to keep you in office to make sure you vote for more genocide and apartheid.
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This is a perfect encapsulation of the antisemitism industry: It weapons primarily discursive violence -- bigoted comments & thought crimes -- in order to facilitate Israel's genocidal violence -- the mass murder of tens if not hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Lebanese & Iranians.
I recently found out that I share the same first and last name with a 19 year old student at Cornell who is going viral (over ten million views across twitter and other platforms) for anti-Semitic comments that he made (and continues to make) to a prospective-employer.
My social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) and law firm email address are being blown up by people understandably angry at this other Austin Franco. None of the posts cross any legal lines, but unfortunately there have been comments and emails talking about me, my firm, my parents, etc.
To make matters worse, the undergraduate looks just enough like me to be confusing, and the NY Post, Fox News, and other publications, have written about it with his image as the article cover.
The bad Austin Franco is continuing to make these statements to media and on social media, so we wanted to go on the record disassociating me and the law firm from him.
I am hoping this post will alleviate some confusion for the general public.
I appreciate all the people who have reached out!