Police are probing an antisemitic incident at a Barstool Sports bar in Philadelphia after video of a hateful sign went viral.
A female server appeared to hold up a sign reading “f–k the Jews” in the clip filmed at Barstool Sansom Street in Center City on Saturday night.
“We are currently looking into this matter,” a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson told The Post.
“A video has surfaced showing a sign at the Philly Barstool bar, located at 1213 Sansom Street, reportedly from Saturday night. We are working to gather more information and will provide an update as soon as possible.”
One of the people involved in the video is reportedly a student at Temple University.
Students at the Philly-based school “were involved in an anti-Semitic incident at an off-campus location,” the university said in a statement on Sunday.
Other horrified patrons said they left the bar after seeing the sign.
“It was just like, ‘Whoa,’ it threw everybody off guard. Everything was so tense at the time,” Nyia Clark, who was in the bar that night, told NBC Philadelphia.
She and a friend decided to leave, appalled not only at the actions of the young students, but also at the fact that the server appeared to have endorsed it.
“Of course, some dumb college kids are going to do some dumb, stupid stuff, ask for stupid stuff, but I’m thinking, how did the workers sit there? They have to write the sign,” Clark’s friend Sarah Noakes said.
One student believed to have been involved in Saturday’s shocking scenes has been identified and placed on interim suspension, Temple University said, without identifying the student. naming the individual.
“In the strongest terms possible, let me be clear: antisemitism is abhorrent. It has no place at Temple and acts of hatred and discrimination against any person or persons are not tolerated at this university,” school president John Fry said.
Anyone else found to have been involved “will face strict disciplinary action,” including possible expulsion, the school said, adding that its Division of Student Affairs is investigating.
Barstool Sports’ founder and CEO Dave Portnoy, who is Jewish, had earlier released a furious video reacting to the incident at the bar.
Hours after Saturday night’s incident, Portnoy held what he called an “Emergency Press Conference” in response to what happened.
“Tell me, how do I make this f–king right?,” Portnoy said in the video. “What I’m saying is I’m getting the names. I’m trying to be a little responsible. I’m trying to keep it together, but I’m on it.”
But hours later, he said he planned to send the pair to a tour of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in an attempt to educate them, instead of ruining their lives.
“The more I thought about it, it’s like, these are young f–kin’ morons who did this,” he said. “They’re drunk. Do you really want to ruin somebody’s life?”
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