Man yells 'F--k the Jews!' at Dave Portnoy reviewing pizza in Toronto
Dave Portnoy, creator of media company Barstool Sports, was in Toronto trying different pizza spots for his online series, One Bite Pizza Reviews.
In a video posted online on June 2, he’s guided around Toronto by a local called Bill the Greek. One of the places they visit is Terrazza, a restaurant in the Little Italy neighbourhood. Portnoy meets with Terrazza owner Frankie Lasagna and sees the inside of the restaurant before walking out with a fresh pie. A group of on-lookers watch, some filming, as Portnoy does his review on the street.
Portnoy starts talking about Lasagna’s story , when someone off-camera cuts him off by yelling, “F–k the Jews!”
“See? There we go,” says Portnoy, as he throws one arm up in the air.
The group in the background bursts out into laughter. Portnoy whips his head around and says: “What are you guys f—ing laughing about?”
He stares at the group until they stop laughing. “Exactly,” he says.
Then he continues on with the review for a moment, before remarking: “What is that Toronto hospitality?”
“Terrible, terrible,” says Bill the Greek.
“There’s old school and then there’s no school,” says a voice off-camera.
“There’s no school,” Portnoy agrees, before digging into the pizza.
Portnoy ended up giving the Terrazza slice a rating of 7.4 out of 10.
On Wednesday, the restaurant said in a statement to National Post that it was “deeply saddened and angered by the hate that was directed at one of our guests from a passing car outside our restaurant.”
The statement continued: “These actions have no place in our community. Terrazza is a family-run restaurant, and our foundation is built on the values we live by every day: kindness, respect, inclusion, and the belief that everyone deserves to feel safe and welcome at our table.”
Meanwhile, a clip of the review that included the antisemitic slur has been circulating online. It was shared by Jewish advocate, public speaker and author Jonny Daniels. He visited Toronto last year to help Canadian Holocaust survivors restore a Torah that was hidden in Poland during the Second World War.
He shared the clip of Portnoy on Tuesday with his roughly 84,600 followers on Instagram. The captions reads: “Toronto, 2025. Listen to what this man screams at Dave Portnoy.”
In a statement to National Post on Wednesday, Daniels explained why he wanted to share the video on his account.
“With this unbelievable rise in antisemitism that we are seeing all around the world, I feel it’s important that people see it and are aware of how normalized and accepted it’s become,” he said. “The video of Dave shook us up not just because of the nonchalant manner in which the abuse was screamed, but rather the way in which those around laughed at it.”
He added that Toronto and Canada at large have become a “hotbed of antisemitism with Jew hatred absolutely normalized.”
He said his hope is that by sharing such videos, those in leadership positions can see and understand “that something needs to be done, before it’s too late.”
This latest incident in Toronto comes a month after patrons at a Barstool Sports-owned bar in Philadelphia reportedly asked for a sign that read “F–k the Jews” to accompany their bottle service order.
In a post online, advocacy group American Jewish Committee said : “Video footage showed the group laughing, dancing, and singing along to music, quickly going viral on social media.” Two staff members from the bar were fired over the incident for complying with the customers’ request. One of the two patrons believed to be involved was later identified as a Temple University student. He was placed on interim suspension, the university said .
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