What happened in the Barstool Sansom Street? Scandal that is declared Dave Portnoy's answer

On the night of Saturday, May 3, 2025, an anti -Semitic shield was exhibited in the Barstool Sansom Street Outlet in Philadelphia, from which the video was spread online on Sunday.

Trigger warning: The article has references to anti -Semitism. The reader's discretion is advised.

“F ** k the Jews” read the sign that Jewish non -profit stopantisemitism on social networking site X..

A female employee, apparently a waiter, held up the sign while another repeated the words several times. As Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy explained, signs are usually displayed when the guests order the bottle service in his bars.

The video, which was originally divided into an Instagram story, was recorded by @Mokhan3.0, and @mike.wade03 was marked in the post and thanks.

While the employees who hold the sign were released, as confirmed by Dave Portnoy, an unimaginated student of Temple University was made available to the intermediate suspension after the incident.

In the meantime, Portnoy, who is Jewish, has given long statements on his X account. In the first video he announced that at the moment he received the news he began to be “trembling” and “so f ** king crazy”.

“Who would make this sign in my F ** King bar? You think I will only sit here?” he explained.

In a subsequent video, the barstool sports owner mentioned how he initially wanted to take serious measures against the “guilty”. Later, however, he decided to use it as a “taught moment”.

“I have spoken to both guilty people, of whom I know that they are super committed and spoken to the families. I send these children to Auschwitz. They agreed, which of course is the Holocaust concentration camp,” said Portnoy.

While the student and the barstool staff were confronted with counter -reactions because of his anti -Semitic views, Dave Portnoy also moves controversy with his reaction.

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More about the Barstool Sansom Street Scandal and Dave Portnoy's reaction

On Saturday evening, an anti -Jewish sign was exhibited outside the barstool Sansom Street Bar during a bottle service. After this, Dave Portnoy went to X and announced that he had heard of the incident while preparing for the Met Gala 2025.

In the first video on Sunday, he mentioned that he made it his life mission to “ruin” these people, and although the incident made him “sad”, he was “on the way” to locate the guilty and to hold them into account.

According to the barstool manager, he spoke to several people who were present during the incident and tried to ensure that those responsible were confronted with “consequences for their actions”, including the waitresses and the table they came from. He also mentioned that @mike.wade03, which was marked in the original clip, was checked and found that @mike.wade03 was uninvolved.

Dave claimed when he confronted the culprit, she cried and asked him how to do things right. While one “the stupidest person” was, the other was reportedly “forced” by her colleagues.

In the second video it was claimed a few hours later that Portnoy had claimed that the two people who had ordered the sign agreed to go to Auschwitz, a former Nazis Germany concentration camp during the Second World War, and to educate themselves over the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish community.

“My first reaction was like I was to the ground, their families, everything, and it is as if they know something?

“Maybe I can use this as a teaching moment, and as before, people are just like the Jews or every group and hatred, we try to transform a hideous incident into perhaps learning experience than clichés and very uninterrupted.”

Dave Portnoy added that he was in contact with the Krafts who lead the anti-hate group, and together they would send these children to Auschwitz for a tour, and hopefully they “learn” something. He insisted that he no longer wanted to ruin their lives, but ensured that they think twice before they do something similar in the future and described it as a “fair result”.

The Barstool founder continued to say that he would pay for the trips. After Dave Portnoy's answer, some Internet users claimed that he had overreacted while others defended his statement.

In the meantime, the official website of the Barstool Sansom Street, which was closed on Sunday, shared a post -reading:

“We are sad, embarrassed and frustrated about the regrettable actions of a customer and misguided staff who acted outside the framework of their duties, which led to anti -Semitic hate speech in our establishment last night.

“Unfortunately, several employees ignored their entire training and the written guidelines of the organization in relation to our zero tolerance guideline for discrimination and hate. Instead, the employees complied with a customer's request for a sign in connection with the order of bottle service.”

They also apologized for the incident and expanded their support for the Jewish community.

When Portnoy's comment and the incident with barstool obtained traction, John Fry, President of Temple University, described in a letter “deeply disturbing” and confirmed that a student was used in the intermediate assignment. However, the student's identity is not known.

“Let me clear to the strongest terms: Anti -Semitism is hideous. It has no place in the temple and hate files and discrimination against a person or people are not tolerated at this university,” he wrote.

Fry also mentioned that the department for student matters carried out an investigation. He warned that every other student who was involved in the incident will be exposed to disciplinary measures, including a possible designation.

Jason Holtzman, head of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, called it a “disturbing sign of time”. Rabbi David Kushner, a chaplain from the Philadelphia police department, said Fox 29 said that he spoke to Portnoy and found the incident “incredibly worrying”.

He said it “hurt” and “upset” him, especially a few days in Jewish American history, and he wants to make sure that such an incident will not take place in the future. The police authority in Philadelphia also checks the matter.