PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Temple University has suspended a second student it said was involved with an antisemitic sign at a Center City bar.
In a letter to the school community, Temple President John Fry did not identify the student or specify their alleged connection to a profane and antisemitic sign that was bought over the weekend at Barstool Sansom Street. An investigation by the school's Division of Student Affairs, he said, was ongoing. Philadelphia police are also investigating the incident.
The student who uploaded a video of the sign has since identified himself as 21-year-old Mo Khan. He said he wasn't involved in making the sign and has denied responsibility. Temple suspended him over the weekend. At least two waitresses at the bar were fired after fulfilling a customer request to create the sign.
Khan appeared Tuesday night on the internet show "Stew Peters Live," which has a history of promoting antisemitic beliefs. In his letter, Fry called the content of the interview "both appalling and deeply offensive."
"Antisemitism is not tolerated at Temple," Fry wrote. "We condemn it in the strongest possible terms, and we will be relentless in efforts to combat it, especially when members of our community have been targeted because of their Jewish identity."
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy initially said he wanted to pay for Khan and another student allegedly involved to tour the Auschwitz concentration camps as a "teaching moment," but has since rescinded the offer.
On Tuesday, Portnoy called Khan "an antisemitic coward and a liar" on social media.
Fry also noted a video on social media he called troubling, in which a Temple student made "alarming comments related to the United States." That student was identified as a member of Students for Justice in Palestine. According to Fry, that group had been suspended for actions violating the Student Code of Conduct and is not a recognized by the university.