Dave Portnoy Takes Back Offer of Auschwitz Trip in Anti-Semitic Sign Controversy

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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has rescinded his offer to send the individuals responsible for brandishing an anti-Semitic sign at his bar in Philadelphia on an educational trip to Auschwitz.

On Sunday, Portnoy posted a video on social media raging over a viral clip involving one his Barstool-branded bars in Philadelphia. In the clip, a bottle service sign read, “Fuck the Jews.”

An outraged Portnoy — who is Jewish — worked quickly to identify the people involved with the sign appearing at the bar. After figuring out who was involved, he announced that he’d be sending them to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp to educate them on the plight of the Jewish people.

The next day, however, Portnoy revealed in another video that one of the men — a Temple University student named Mohammed “Mo” Khan — denied his involvement.

“I talked to both of them on the phone,” Portnoy said. “Both of them took accountability. Both of them were like, ‘Yeah, we did this, and we’re willing to go and try to learn.’ Well, then I see a now-deleted — I think it was an Instagram or Snapchat story — of one of the kids, Mo Khan, the one who posted the video. And he has this long speech — we’ll put it in — claiming he was just being a ‘citizen journalist.’ He was just documenting his college life. He had nothing to do with the sign, didn’t buy it, had nothing to do with it, didn’t even know what it was. He’s just being a ‘citizen journalist’ — quite literally a 180 from when I talked to him.”

Portnoy said he then called Khan, who repeatedly denied his involvement. Khan said the call was being recorded and he was joined by his parents. He added in the tweet that Khan’s trip to Poland had been “revoked.”