Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has revoked his offer to send one of the young men who held up a “f*ck the Jews” sign at his bar to the death camp Auschwitz for a “teachable moment.”
As Breitbart News reported, Dave Portnoy took to social media over the weekend to express outrage over an antisemitic incident at his Philadelphia bar.
Portnoy was infuriated last weekend when video surfaced of one of his waitresses and two customers were seen holding up a sign that read “Fuck the Jews.” And when he first learned of the outrageous incident, he vowed to “ruin” the people involved with the sign, Page Six reported.
“I’ve been shaking. I’ve been so fucking mad for the last two hours,” he said in his first video on the matter. “… I’m going to make it my life’s fucking mission to ruin these people. I’m coming for your throat. I’m never ending.”
“You think I’m going to put up with this shit at my bar?” he asked. “I want consequences for fucking actions. So, I’m not just sitting back … no, trust me. I have been on it,” he added.
Emergency Press Conference - There was a “Fuck the Jews” sign at our Philly bar last night. I am shaking I’m so mad pic.twitter.com/DRlQc9woiA
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 4, 2025
The perpetrators were later identified, and Portnoy said that he would use the incident for a “teachable moment” by personally paying for the two young men to visit the Auschwitz death camp instead of publicly shaming them. According to Portnoy, one of the perpetrators, identified as Mo Kahn, initially accepted responsibility only to later claim that he was only working as a “citizen journalist.”
“I’m like, ‘Hey, asshole, you fucking uploaded this to Instagram,'” Portnoy said in a video on Monday. “‘I didn’t put your fucking name out there. Other people got it because you uploaded it to Instagram. You had a good laugh about it.’ And he’s like, ‘No, it wasn’t me, I would never do that.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, I’m getting a million DMs about you, including another antisemitic joke like six months ago. Like, how do you explain that one if you’re not ever doing anything like that?
“I’m like trying to make this a teachable moment, throw a lifeline to a kid, and he’s like, ‘Well, I already got suspended from Temple’ because you got a ‘fuck the Jews’ sign at a bar and posted it on social media,'” Portnoy added. “What don’t you get about that? Maybe if you learn a life lesson. Maybe if people watch you go to Poland and seem like you’ve changed, this gets behind you.”
Portnoy said he revoked the offer.
“Fuck, I’m sorry, man. I tried to throw you a lifeline and make something out of this, and now you’re a ‘citizen journalist’? You’ve had nothing to do with it? Buddy, you’ve uploaded a video with a sign ‘fuck the Jews,’ everyone laughed,” he said.
Quick update. Mo Kahn is no longer taking any responsibility or involvement for the “Fuck the Jews” sign at Barstool Samson. His is basically lawyering up and blaming it all on his friend now and is saying he was just a citizen journalist. It is a 180 from my convo with him… pic.twitter.com/LGW4sVUhbz
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 5, 2025
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