Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy unloaded on anti-Israel protesters causing chaos on college campuses.
Portnoy told Fox Business’ Stuart Varney he would refuse to hire any of the protesters who had violated trespass laws in an attempt to occupy the campuses in support of Palestine. He said these protesters do not care about the actual war in Gaza and instead prioritize protesting any issue because they hate America and their “rotten lives.”
“I’d like to see them go to some of the countries that they think are so great. Cause issues, break into buildings and then demand food from the campus say ‘we’re doing a hunger strike, you better feed us.’ They cut their tongues out. These people are always gonna protest, they’re always gonna hate this country for whatever reason, and they’re always gonna try to create these type of issues,” Portnoy said.
Portnoy criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for protecting all other groups besides Jews, who have been intimidated by protesters and even blocked from entering campus buildings. (RELATED: Columbia Cancels Main Commencement Ceremony Amid Anti-Israel Protests)
“You should be punished, thrown in jail, and I don’t want to hear you cry about it either! And again, a lot of these people, they don’t even care about the cause, Stuart. They literally jump from protest to protest, they’re mad at their rotten life, they hate America. Go protest in Iran, see how it goes. See, half the people in these groups, they’d be thrown in the gulag in two seconds,” he continued.
A mob of 200 protesters at Columbia University broke into Hamilton Hall and barricaded the building. Johannah King-Slutzky, a PhD candidate studying a “Marxist lens” of “theories of the imagination and poetry,” demanded the university bring the “revolutionaries” food to prove they are committed to their students, despite having the ability to stop the barricade.
The university has threatened expulsion to the students who participated in the barricade and plan to suspend those who have involved themselves in the protests.
Hundreds of students and outside protesters have been arrested at several universities including Yale, Emory University, the University of Texas at Austin and Emerson University for clashing with law enforcement and refusing to disperse.
Biden condemned the “blatant Antisemitism” erupting at the protests, causing many Jewish students and professors to leave campus for their safety.
“The ancient story of persecution against Jews in the Haggadah also reminds us that we must speak out against the alarming surge of Antisemitism – in our schools, communities, and online. Silence is complicity. Even in recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews,” the president said.
“This blatant Antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous – and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country,” he continued.
Rabbi Elie Buechler, who is associated with Columbia’s Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, told Jake Tapper he sent a WhatsApp message to around 300 primarily Orthodox Jewish students “strongly” suggesting they leave campus, CNN reported.
At Columbia, 540 Jewish students signed a letter condemning the protests and defending Zionism, saying while they love Israel, they do not always support the actions of the government, according to The New York Times.