Dave Portnoy makes troubling claim about the rise of antisemitism after getting abused in Mississippi

After being subjected to anti-Semitic abuse in Mississippi, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy sat down with CBS News to discuss the rise of anti-Jewish hatred in the US.

Earlier this year, a heated Portnoy opened up about a light-up sign at one of his company's branded bars in Philadelphia.

Over this past weekend, Portnoy was targeted with anti-Semitic abuse in Starkville, Mississippi before a college football game between Mississippi State and Georgia.

A clip of Portnoy speaking to news correspondent Tony Doukopil for 'CBS Sunday Morning' has made the rounds on social media ahead of the interview's release next week.

'I've seen in my own experience, just being Barstool, the difference between the hate I get - I mean, occasionally you get, "Hey k**e" or "Jew" or whatever. It's every day now,' Portnoy says in the video. 'Like, there's a definitive shift in what's going on.'

Portnoy, who is Jewish, says he feels compelled to speak up against the cruelty: 'For me, being a Jewish person, like, you got to step up.'

'You're kind of someone people look up to in the Jewish community. You have to be like, "Alright, this is not normal ha-ha with the guys." People are coming up with real hate.' 

CBS says the interview with Doukopil took place before the vile comment was hurled at him in Mississippi. 

A passerby interrupted a pizza review that Portnoy was doing and shouted, 'Hey f*** the Jews, f*** you Dave.' 

After the man shouted the comment at him, Portnoy looked understandably shocked as the crowd that had gathered around him immediately turned around and condemned the abuse.

'Why don't you come in the camera, buddy?' Portnoy then called out, and the member of the public who filmed the incident turned their own phone around to show what appeared to be a young man in a baseball cap who was the perpetrator. 

Portnoy then walked up to the heckler and they appeared to exchange words which were not caught on the video that has appeared on social media. 

The exchange did, however, appear to be filmed by Portnoy's own cameraman.

There was also plenty of pushback among the crowd that had gathered to watch Portnoy's pizza review in person. 

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One woman can be heard saying 'that was awful' while a man shouted at the heckler: 'F*** you, get out of here.'

It is sadly not the first time in recent months where Portnoy has been targeted with such disgraceful abuse over his faith. 

When the 48-year-old was filming a pizza review outside of Terrazza in Toronto in June, a passer-by yelled out 'f*** the Jews' from a car.

'There we go,' Portnoy said, before being left furious that members of the crowd that had gathered around him on that day laughed at the incident.

'What are you guys f***ing laughing about?' Portnoy shouted. They quickly fell silent, with Portnoy adding: 'Exactly.' 

A month before the Canada incident, Portnoy was embroiled in another Anti-Semitic scandal, after a bottle service worker was filmed holding a sign that read 'F*** the Jews' at the Barstool Sports bar in Philadelphia.

Portnoy immediately fired two waitresses and identified the people allegedly responsible for ordering the sign - one being Temple University student Mo Khan.

'This was an act of pure hate and this should disgust you,' he said. After being outed, Khan released a shocking video claiming to be the victim of a 'lynching' and whining about how his life was 'ruined' over 'just an edgy joke.'

Portnoy responded by branding him the 'face of hatred'.

Khan was suspended from Temple University, fired from his job, and lost 'a prestigious internship that I worked really hard to get'. 

The student even asked for money to 'defend' himself and 'show the founders of cancel culture that their reign of tyranny is over'. Portnoy branded Khan 'a f***ing anti-Semitic piece of s***'.