Dave Portnoy taunted with anti-semitic slurs during Barstool Pizza Review filming
Barstool CEO Dave Portnoy was the target of an anti-semitic remark while filming a pizza review in Toronto just a month after a similar incident in his bar.
Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy was benignly filming one of his signature one-bite pizza reviews in Toronto when he was interrupted by a heckler. This comes just a month after a similar anti-semitic incident at a Barstool-owned bar in Philadelphia.
"**** the Jews," someone shouted as Portnoy stood in front of a pizzeria called Terazza. A chorus of teenagers laughed behind the Barstool frontman as he paused before reacting to the incident.
"What are you guys ******* laughing about? Exactly," Portnoy told the onlookers. "One bite, everybody knows the rule. What is that Toronto hospitality?"
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Portnoy, in town for a Bitcoin conference, continued with the review as normal. "9.1," a kid shouted as he took the first bite. "These kids don't know the scale at all," he said, returning to score. Portnoy awarded the pizza a 7.4 — "that's a good score."
In early May, a Temple student held up a sign reading "**** the Jews" in the crowd in an attempt to get the on-stage DJ's attention at the Barstool Sansom Street Bar.
Portnoy expressed how he intially wanted to sue but eventually wish to change the incident into a learning experience. "My initial reaction was like I'm going to ******* burn these people to the ground, their families, everything," he said.
"Maybe that's not the best course of action. Maybe I can use this as a teaching moment, and like before, people just are like **** the Jews or any group, and the hate, let's try to like turn a hideous incident into maybe a learning experience, as cliche and very unlike me," he continued.
"But 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 course, the Holocaust concentration camps."
"Been in touch with the Krafts, who run the anti-hate group. We're going to send these kids to Auschwitz, and they're going to do a tour of the concentration camps in Germany and hopefully learn something. And maybe like their lives aren't ruined, and they think twice, and more importantly, other people like see it's not just like words you're throwing around. So to me, that's a fair outcome of this event."
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Portnoy eventually revoked the offer after one of the individuals in the incident refused to accept wrongdoing. His bar was closed the following day.
