Dave Portnoy receives praise for handling of antisemitic incident at Barstool bar

Ben Stiller Sen Dave McCormick and others praised Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for how he dealt with the culprits who initiated the f--- the Jews sign at one of the company s bars Portnoy noted in a video on Sunday that the two men who initiated the antisemitic signage at the Philadelphia establishment were going to be sent to Auschwitz in Poland to learn about the Holocaust More than million Jews were killed in Nazi concentration camps at the site CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COM Good on stoolpresidente for not only forthwith working to address the horrific display of hate displayed in Philadelphia the City of Brotherly Love last night but also using it as an opportunity to educate on the tragic history of anti-Jewish hatred and violence McCormick wrote We can t look the other way at antisemitism It requirements to be identified called out and crushed whenever it rears its ugly head Stiller agreed with Portnoy on going scorched-earth on the culprits However Portnoy eventually cooled off and decided to educate the men on the horrors of the Holocaust instead Everyone requirements to call out antisemitism when they see it Thank you stoolpresidente for doing the real work to ensure change X CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote This is a great use of money ex-NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya added True Leadership ex-MMA fighter Chael Sonnen wrote The f--- the Jews sign appeared at one of Barstool Sports bars in Philadelphia on Saturday A man who posted the video indicated others chuckling caroling and dancing as music blared in the background The sports media personality initially declared he was on a mission to ruing these people However it appeared cooler heads prevailed These are young f---ing morons who did this They re drunk Do you really want to ruin somebody s life Portnoy explained And let me be honest I don t know what s going on in the world I ve been doing Barstool for years I ve had more hate more antisemitism in the last year year and a half than I ve ever had doing it Portnoy explained And I m not talking politics or what s going on in the Middle East just hating groups of people You hate my parents you hate my grandparents s--- like that it s crazy So yeah my initial reaction was I m going to burn these people to the ground their families everything And it s like you know what Maybe that s not the best lesson of action Maybe I can use this as a teaching moment Portnoy declared he will try to turn a hideous occurrence into a learning moment I talked to both the culprits who I know are super involved in it talked to the families I m sending these kids to Auschwitz They ve agreed to go That s of subject the Holocaust concentration camps Been in touch with New England Patriots squad owner Robert Kraft who run the anti-hate group HARVARD PRESIDENT APOLOGIZES FOR FAILURE TO ADDRESS ANTISEMITISM ISLAMOPHOBIA AFTER NEW REPORTS DISTRIBUTED We re gonna send these kids to Auschwitz They re gonna do a tour of the concentration camps in Poland Hopefully learn something Maybe their lives aren t ruined and they think twice and more importantly other people see it s not just words you re throwing around To me that s a fair outcome of this event Portnoy disclosed two other waitresses involved in the happening were fired I ve been shaking I ve been so f---ing mad for the last two hours he noted in his initial video I m going to make it my life s f---ing mission to ruin these people I m coming to your throat I m never ending Antisemitism has been on the rise since the Oct terrorists attacks by Hamas on Jewish people in Israel The Anti-Defamation League announced last month that the number of incidents in the U S reached a record high last year with more than half of the incidents being related to Israel Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter