Mo Khan, the suspended Temple University student who posted video of a “F— the Jews” sign at a Philadelphia sports bar, could have gone on a free educational trip to Auschwitz — as Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy initially offered.
Instead, the 21-year-old appeared on Holocaust denier Stew Peters’ podcast to tell his side of the story. Peters, a longtime promoter of antisemitic conspiracy theories, has called for the mass deportation of all Jews from the U.S., claimed that President Donald Trump’s support for Israel was driven by “Jewish paymasters,” and blamed the assassination of JFK on the Mossad.
On Tuesday’s podcast, Khan said he “absolutely” agreed with Peters that people should “join forces” to fight “Jewish supremacy.”
Khan became the focus of online discourse after posting a video to social media on Saturday of waitresses holding a “F— the Jews” sign at a sports bar owned by Portnoy, who is Jewish. According to Portnoy, Khan and another patron requested the sign, which appeared in the video as customers danced to a thumping beat. “F— ’em! F— ’em!” someone shouted in the background.
Portnoy said when he initially spoke with Khan, he cried and accepted responsibility for the incident. Portnoy offered to pay for Khan and his friend to tour Auschwitz “as a learning experience” and “so they could reflect on their actions and hopefully come out as better men.”
But in a video posted to X, Khan later said he wasn’t responsible for the sign and didn’t know who was. He also said those statements to Portnoy were made “under duress” and he viewed the sign as merely an “edgy joke.” An online fundraiser that appears to be created by Khan aims to raise $25,000 for his relocation expenses and legal fees. The fund has attracted $12,555 so far.
“That sign didn’t kill any jews–nor did my reporting of it–but their support of Israel kills 1000s of people EVERY SINGLE DAY,” the fundraiser reads.
On Peters’ podcast, Khan defended his actions, saying when he uploaded the video, he “didn’t expect much backlash” and didn’t grasp why “people were getting hurt over just a couple of words.”
“One of the biggest takeaways from that conversation is that they bonded over antisemitism,” said Phoenix Berman, an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. “Stew Peters was hurling a lot of antisemitic conspiracy theories, narratives, tropes, and largely from what I could tell, Kahn, at times, agreed with what Stew Peters had to say.”
Peters pledged to gift Khan the equivalent of $100,000 worth of $JPROOF tokens, a cryptocurrency described as “a movement to break free from the Rothschild-run banking cabal that dominates our financial system.”
“We’re going our own way, and the Jews are not invited,” said Peters, who sat behind a table with a red hat bearing the phrase “BAD GOYS” and a white mug labeled “Mein Coffee.” “Yeah, f— the Jews!”
Portnoy has since rescinded his offer of the all-expenses-paid visit to the Nazi death camp.
Benyamin Cohen contributed reporting.
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