Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says he revoked an offer to fund a trip to the former Auschwitz concentration camp for a Temple University student who posted a viral video showing an antisemitic sign at the Barstool Sansom Street bar in Philadelphia.
The university said the student has been placed on interim suspension, but did not identify them.
StopAntisemitism, a nonprofit, shared a video on X on Sunday of an employee at the Center City bar holding a sign that said “[Expletive] the Jews.”
Portnoy, who is Jewish, said in an expletive-laden rant after the video surfaced that he’s already fired the employees involved.
Portnoy said that the two people who ordered the sign during bottle service agreed to go on a trip to Auschwitz, a former Nazi Germany concentration camp during World War II, to learn about the Holocaust. He said he hoped the incident would serve as a teachable moment.
Then on Monday, Portnoy said in a post on X that he “revoked” the trip to Poland, where Auschwitz is located, for at least one of the people involved because the person “is no longer taking responsibility” for the sign.
Barstool Sansom Street was closed on Sunday after the antisemitic sign went viral.
In a statement on Instagram, the bar wrote in part: “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 anti-semitic hate speech last evening at our establishment. 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.”