2nd Temple University student suspended over antisemitic incident at Barstool Sports bar

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A 2nd Temple University pupil was suspended implicit an antisemitic incidental that took spot astatine a Barstool Sports barroom successful Philadelphia implicit the weekend.

The 2nd pupil was not identified, according to FOX 29 Philadelphia.

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The Barstool Sports logo connected a laptop arranged successful New York connected Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The incidental occurred connected Saturday nighttime astatine the barroom arsenic bottle-service girls brought retired a motion to the level that read, "f--- the Jews." Barstool Sports laminitis Dave Portnoy announced the time aft that the 2 waitresses successful question were fired and that helium talked to the 2 men allegedly liable for the motion and agreed to nonstop them connected travel to Auschwitz to larn astir the Holocaust.

One of the men, who was identified arsenic Mo Khan, reneged connected the woody and pushed backmost connected claims that helium had thing to bash with the antisemitic sign. Temple has already suspended Khan.

He released a connection connected Tuesday, saying erstwhile helium made the statement with Portnoy, helium was nether duress.

"Although I had thing to bash with the motion coming out, nor bash I cognize who did it, I cognize that the motion was provocative due to the fact that it reminded radical of the unjust things Israel is doing astir the world, frankincense starring maine to study connected it," Khan said, reupping his assertion that helium was a "citizen journalist" successful the matter.

"Dave Portnoy and his friends tin take to beryllium triggered implicit the sentiments of that motion and adjacent footwear maine retired of the constitution forever. However, they person nary close to destruct my beingness implicit escaped code and yet thing that was an edgy joke. Frankly, they’re much disquieted astir destroying and uprooting maine than the thousands of radical getting destroyed and uprooted successful genocide."

Khan past appeared connected "Stew Peters Live" and agreed with the host’s ideas astir "Jewish supremacy."

A Syracuse Orange instrumentality holds a emblem with the Barstool Sports logo anterior to the crippled against the Wagner Seahawks astatine the Carrier Dome successful Syracuse, New York, connected Sept. 8, 2018. (Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports)

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Portnoy responded to Khan’s connection aboriginal Tuesday. He wrote successful a station connected X that Khan was a "flat liar."

"I talked to him connected the telephone with his buddy and they some owned up to it and cried astir it. He past lawyered up aft speaking with his family," Portnoy wrote. "His sanction got retired due to the fact that he’s a moron and uploaded ‘f--- the Jews’ motion to his Instagram earlier I adjacent knew astir it. He already went viral without me. He spreads hatred and uses the struggle successful Middle East arsenic his excuse. And did it successful a barroom with my (company’s) sanction connected it.

"Now he’s trying to nett from it. I’m definite he’ll marque wealth due to the fact that determination is tons of antisemitism successful the world. Regardless this is the slightest astonishing happening ever. He is the explanation of a coward. Zero accountability for his actions. I don’t attraction what religion you are oregon adjacent however you consciousness astir Middle East. This was an enactment of axenic hatred and this should disgust you."

Portnoy said successful a abstracted video helium felt "dumb" trying to "show grace" and marque things right.

"This is what the look of being a coward is," helium said of Khan.

On Wednesday, Portnoy wrote connected X that Khan "may beryllium the top happening that’s ever happened for Jews to combat antisemitism successful America" and pointed to different alleged incidents involving Khan.