The threats have increased exponentially over his public support of Israel and stand against antisemitism.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

Jewish social media influencer and Barstool Sports President Dave Portnoy said he is facing antisemitism “every day” now as a result of his public support for Israel and stand against Jew-hatred.

“I’ve seen in my own experience just being Barstool, the difference between how much hate I get,” Portnoy said in a preview released Tuesday of an interview on the upcoming CBS Sunday Morning show.

“I mean, occasionally you get a ‘kike’ or ‘Jew’ or whatever. It’s every day now. Like there’s a definitive shift in what’s going on.”

Instead of intimidating him, it galvanized him.

“For me, being a Jewish person, like, you got to step up,” he said. “You’re kind of someone people look up to in the Jewish community. You have to be like, ‘All right, this is not normal haha with the guys.’ People are coming in with real hate.”

He said he has felt the need for 24/7 protection at home “because it only takes one lunatic.”

Soon after taping the interview Friday, Portnoy, who is famous for his One Bite Pizza Reviews, was vilified by an antisemitic heckler who yelled at him, “F*** the Jews, f*** you, Dave Portnoy,” and threw coins at him as he was commenting on a pizza shop’s product in Mississippi for his online show.

Police arrested Patrick McClintock, 20, three days later and charged him with the misdemeanor of disturbing the peace.

Portnoy reacted to the incident with disbelief.

“Imagine hating someone just because of their religion in this … country,” he said.

Hugely popular, especially among young male American conservatives, Portnoy made himself a target by standing strongly against antisemitism, especially on college campuses, which exploded after the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.

In May 2024, he told Fox Business that he would not hire any anti-Israel collegiate protesters.

Discussing the Jewish students who have been facing constant verbal and physical abuse, he said, “There is no other group of people – I don’t care if we’re talking African Americans, Asians, women –  that could be so openly intimidated on campus and just have the administration sit there and do nothing.”

“The second you start intimidating other groups … and supporting a terror group – Hamas – that you cannot do, and you should be punished, thrown in jail, and I don’t want to hear you cry about it, either,” he added.

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Jewish Barstool owner Dave Portnoy was verbally attacked by an antisemitic passerby who shouted, “F— the Jews,” and threw coins at him while he was doing a pizza review.

While doing a pizza review in Mississippi, Dave Portnoy was accosted by an antisemite who yelled "F–k the Jews" and threw coins at him.

I'm sure many will sweep this incident under the rug. "Oh, well, he wasn't hurt physically," or "Oh, but how do you know a Jew wasn't the one… pic.twitter.com/osX1DkDhj6

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 8, 2025

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During a routine pizza review, which Jewish media mogul Dave Portnoy has done thousands of times, an off-screen heckler shouted “F— the Jews,” drawing laughter from some bystanders and prompting an angry, immediate response from Portnoy.

Toronto the Good used to be known for its hospitality.

Now this is what visitors like @stoolpresidente have to look forward to when they come to support local small businesses. pic.twitter.com/3EY2ZtrmGK

— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) June 3, 2025

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As news of the incident spread, Portnoy’s reactions evolved from raw outrage to moderation to defensiveness and back to outrage.

By Andrew Lapin, JTA

A saga unfolded on Dave Portnoy’s social media channels over the last two days as he raged over an antisemitic sign at one of his bars, pledged to send the perpetrators on an all-expenses-paid tour of Auschwitz and then, after a reversal, doxxed one of them and withdrew the offer.

The Barstool Sports media mogul, who is Jewish, isn’t the only one exacting retribution over the incident.

The Temple University students who ordered a sign with their drinks reading “F— the Jews” at a Barstool-affiliated sports bar in Philadelphia are also facing consequences from their school.

At least one has been suspended.

The saga began when a viral video showed a waitress carrying the Barstool-branded sign with the antisemitic slur through Barstool Sansom Street on Saturday night.

What unfolded afterward is a case study in contemporary discourse about antisemitism — with a media personality who has himself repeatedly been accused of hate speech now trying to address an incident of bigotry on his turf.

“I’m, like, trying to make this a teachable moment, throw a lifeline,” Portnoy said late Monday in his fourth video on the incident in under 36 hours. “Maybe if you actually learn a life lesson, maybe if people watch you go to Poland and seem like you changed, this gets behind you. But now, no. I’m not going to send him now.”

He was not present for the bar incident but learned about it from the video alongside his fans — and critics. As news of the incident spread, Portnoy’s reactions evolved from raw outrage to moderation to defensiveness and back to outrage.

“I’ve been shaking, I’ve been so f—ing mad for the last two hours,” he said in an “emergency press conference” posted to social media Sunday afternoon. “I’m going to f—ing make it my life f—ing mission to ruin these people, like, I’m coming to your throat. I’m never ending.”

He claimed one of the perpetrators had insisted he was not antisemitic. “You want to take antisemitism classes?” he said in the video. “You want to do whatever? You make it feel right. I don’t need your f—ing tears.”

In another “emergency press conference” posted less than two hours later, he took a calmer tone, announcing the Auschwitz trip and saying he hoped to use the incident as a “teaching moment.”

He added that he was in touch with “the Krafts, who run the anti-hate group” — presumably a reference to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who is also Jewish, and Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism.

“The more I thought about it, it’s like, these are young fucking morons who did this,” Portnoy said. “They’re drunk. Like, do you really want to ruin somebody’s life?”

He was less charitable to the female servers involved in the incident.

“The two waitresses who worked at our place, fired. One of ‘em [is] so dumb, Kelly, just the dumbest human I’ve ever talked to, and I don’t know if she thought she was making a political statement,” he said. “Those two girls are fired.”

The saga was far from over. On Monday, Portnoy posted another angry video, this time lashing out at a reporter whom he called a “f—ing asshole” for asking him if he believed his brand had contributed to “a culture of harassment” leading to incidents like the one in Philadelphia.

“Here’s what I would say is causing that kind of environment,” he told the reporter in a video he posted to social media. “All of these colleges who let Jewish kids get harassed on campus 24-7.”

Then, later in the day, came a plot twist. A Temple student who Portnoy said initially “took accountability,” seemed to then perform an about-face.

In a fourth video, Portnoy said he discovered a now-unavailable Instagram statement in which the student, who posted the video of the antisemitic sign to Instagram, claimed to be acting as a “citizen journalist” who was unconnected with the sign.

The statement, which Portnoy posted, said, “I do not support the awful message contained in that sign” and said its author had faced “serious threats to my safety” since the saga began.

Portnoy said the student and his parents then got on a recorded call with Portnoy, and the student said he had been suspended. In the video Monday afternoon, Portnoy said the student’s full name and flashed his photo on screen.

“I’m like, ‘Hey asshole, you f—ing uploaded this to instagram,” Portnoy said. “You had a good laugh about it.”

A range of antisemitism watchdogs also called attention to the student, whom Portnoy and others identified as Mohammad or Mo Khan.

They included the group StopAntisemitism, which endorses a “name-and-shame” approach to responding to antisemitism, as well as mainstream groups such as the American Jewish Committee.

Khan was also identified in an online fundraiser announced on Monday that said it aimed to help him contest his suspension and clear his name.

“Mohammed made mistakes—he attended a bar, perhaps trusted the wrong crowd—but he is not a bigot,” the fundraiser page says. “He’s a student who deserves the chance to prove his innocence. Let’s ensure hate is met with accountability, but accusations are met with evidence.”

A LinkedIn account belonging to someone with the same name and a profile on a Temple University website were both taken down, and the Instagram account that first posted the video, mokhan3.0, went private.

Portnoy rejected the idea that the student was falsely accused, adding that people had sent him a screenshot of the student making another antisemitic joke.

“This kid wouldn’t even admit he did it,” he said. “Do you think everyone’s stupid? You’re a citizen journalist? F—, I’m sorry man, I tried to throw you a lifeline and make something out of this, and you’re now a citizen journalist?”

In its own statement, Temple said that multiple students were “involved in an antisemitic incident at an off-campus location” and that it had identified one, which it did not name, who would be placed on interim suspension. Any additional students identified by the school would also face discipline, the school’s president John Fry wrote.

The fraternity Kappa Delta Rho also said an unnamed student was a member and that it would be investigating, adding, “To be clear, our organization firmly opposes all forms of hate, which have no place in our fraternity.” Local police are also investigating the incident, a spokesperson told local news Sunday.

Philadelphia’s Anti-Defamation League thanked Temple’s president for taking action against the student. In a separate statement, the ADL office added that it was “getting in touch with the bar’s management.”

The Barstool founder has drawn praise from some for his swift and intense reaction. In the comments on the videos, the Republican Jewish Coalition thanked Portnoy “for taking this seriously.”

Debra Messing and other Jewish celebrities and influencers also thanked him. Even some of his critics said in social media posts that they were pleased to see him acting swiftly and distressed by the suggestion that he was to blame for antisemitism at his bar.

By Monday evening, Portnoy, who often seems to relish confrontation in his videos, said he was tiring of the ordeal.

“All right, another update from the sign situation at Barstool Sansom Street,” he said at the beginning of his latest video, “which I am so sick of dealing with, but obviously going to deal with.”

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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy slams staff and patrons over shocking antisemitic incident.

By World Israel News Staff

A Jewish businessman and social media influencer known for his popular sports bars was enraged by a sign reading “F– the Jews,” which was placed at a venue that he owns.

The sign was placed on a private booth at Barstool Sansom Street in Philadelphia on Saturday evening.

The patrons who apparently put up the sign featured it in numerous videos posted to their social media accounts.

In one video, a waitress is shown holding up the sign to the camera.

Dave Portnoy, whose company Barstool Sports operates numerous successful sports-focused nightclubs and bars and creates viral comedic videos, took to social media to express his frustration with the antisemitic incident.

“I’ve been shaking. I’ve been so… mad for the last two hours,” Portnoy said in a video he posted to his X account.

“I’m going to make it my life’s…mission to ruin” the people who placed the sign in his business, he said, adding that “I’m coming to your throat.”

Portnoy stressed that he was “on the trail” of those who had placed the sign and then posted a video update hours later that he had identified the culprits.

The entrepreneur said he fired members of the bar’s waitstaff, who apparently continued servicing the customers after they placed the sign, in violation of the venue’s policies.

“We are saddened, embarrassed, and frustrated by the deplorable actions of a customer and misguided staff acting outside the scope of their duties, which resulted in antisemitic hate speech last evening at our establishment,” Barstool Sansom Street wrote in an Instagram statement.

“Unfortunately, several employees ignored all of their training and the organization’s written policies regarding our zero tolerance policy for discrimination and hate. Instead, the employees complied with a customer’s request for a sign in connection with ordering bottle service.”

A Temple University student who is believed to be involved in the incident was suspended from the school, the university’s president wrote in an open letter.

“In the strongest terms possible, let me be clear: antisemitism is abhorrent,” Temple University president John Fry wrote. “It has no place at Temple and acts of hatred and discrimination against any person or persons are not tolerated at this university.”

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Mitchell had come under fire earlier this year after praising Adolf Hitler, denying the Holocaust on his “ArkanSanity” podcast, and spewing hate toward the Jewish community.

By Jewish Breaking News

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy stole the spotlight at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 314 in Miami — not from the octagon, but from the stands — by trolling controversial fighter Bryce Mitchell after his humiliating second-round loss.

Portnoy, donning a kippah and proudly waving an Israeli flag, celebrated Mitchell’s defeat in theatrical fashion, sending a clear message in response to the fighter’s recent antisemitic tirades.

Mitchell had come under fire earlier this year after praising Adolf Hitler, denying the Holocaust on his “ArkanSanity” podcast, and spewing hate toward the Jewish community.

UFC CEO Dana White had previously blasted Mitchell’s remarks as “some of the most ignorant” he’d ever encountered in the sport.

Mitchell, whose comments sparked widespread backlash, was choked out by Brazil’s Jean Silva — an outcome many spectators saw as poetic justice.

Portnoy’s reaction went viral online, as he posted, “Always fun to see a Hitler lover get his ass whopped,” alongside footage of him celebrating with the Israeli flag.

The fight night drew a star-studded audience, including US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Senator Ted Cruz, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio — all sitting ringside to take in the action.

While the evening featured high-stakes bouts like Alexander Volkanovski reclaiming the featherweight belt and Paddy Pimblett scoring a TKO over Michael Chandler, it was Portnoy’s bold protest that became the viral knockout of the night.

In an era where sports and politics often collide, Portnoy’s response to Mitchell’s hateful rhetoric sent an unambiguous message: there’s no room for Nazi sympathizers in the ring — or anywhere else.

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