The student behind an antisemitic sign displayed at the Barstool Bar in Philadelphia is retaliating against its owner, Dave Portnoy.
Temple University student Mo Khan, 21, is crowdfunding for legal representation that he claims is necessary to combat the “attacks” from Portnoy. Khan has been suspended from Temple University, lost his job, and claims his personal information has been leaked online.
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Portnoy’s bar was slammed online when one of its marquees read “F*** the Jews,” which was captured in several videos. This came weeks after President Donald Trump’s executive order on measures to combat antisemitism.
Portnoy fired the two employees responsible, but offered them a trip to Poland on his dime. He told Fox News’s America’s Newsroom that “the thought was maybe if they could learn more about the history and why this is so offensive, and visit Poland and the concentration camps in Auschwitz. You could make a teaching moment out of it.”
Instead, Khan posted a video of himself on X saying he felt Portnoy was “trying to force me to take a trip abroad to visit death camps as a condition of not destroying my life and the lives of my family members.” The video was hit with a community note that the story behind how the sign came to be differed from what Khan told Portnoy over the phone.
“Dave Portnoy, and the greater Jewish community are making themselves out to be some kind of victims because of hurt feelings from 3 words on a bar sign, but I am the real victim,” Khan’s fundraiser reads. As of Wednesday afternoon, it has raised over $13,000.
Portnoy mocked Khan’s video in a statement, accusing him of “now trying to play the victim and raise money for himself through a video statement where he (poorly) tried to read a PR statement likely made by ChatGPT.”
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“Portnoy offers Khan the chance to make things right by educating himself on the history of anti-Semitism across the world. Khan accepts. But then days later, he changes his mind and decides he’s a victim who now needs to be sent Solana,” the statement read. “While Mo’s apology may win him some made-up awards nobody cares about at Harvard or Columbia, this unfortunately is the real world. A world where Mo Khan is an anti-Semitic grifting piece of shit who deserves an awful life. A world where hate has no place. A world where Portnoy is a great man.”
Khan’s fundraiser on GiveSendGo follows others who joined the platform after going viral online. Among them is Karmelo Anthony, the Texas teenager facing murder charges, and Shiloh Hendrix, a woman who was recorded saying the “N” word at a man who was following her around a park and filming her.