It's A Trap

Let me explain exactly how Jew haters, bots, and grifters incite people to hate Jews.

While filming one of his “One Bite” pizza reviews in Starkville, Mississippi, Barstool founder Dave Portnoy was interrupted by a 20 year old Mississippi State University student who shouted “F*** the Jews” and threw coins toward him. The encounter was caught on video and went viral. Police reviewed the footage, issued a warrant, and charged the student with disturbing the peace, a standard public order misdemeanor.

Dave Portnoy didn’t ask for anyone to be arrested. He didn’t call the cops or file a complaint. The police saw a man shouting “F*** the Jews” in public and decided on their own that it crossed the line for public order. That’s it. That’s the story.

Every time something like this happens and someone faces even the smallest consequence, the same crowd loses its mind. The aftermath of this incident hit certain corners of the internet and immediately devolved into a frenzy of hate toward Dave Portnoy and American Jews. The narrative shifted almost instantly from a guy screaming antisemitic slurs in public to an avalanche of posts accusing Jews of controlling the police, running the country, and silencing criticism. Within hours, it wasn’t about what happened in Mississippi anymore. It was about how Jews are supposedly untouchable, how “free speech” is dead, and how this arrest somehow proves that Jews have special power in America. It’s the same recycled playbook every time. Take a vile act of open antisemitism, figure out how to flip the story, and turn the victim into the villain.

Disturbing the peace is one of the oldest public safety laws in America. It exists to stop situations that can spiral into violence. Police use it when someone’s public behavior is disruptive or threatening, even if it doesn’t rise to a felony. It covers yelling threats, provoking fights, or creating a scene that makes bystanders fear escalation. The point is to stop trouble before it turns into something worse.

And yes, it is up to police discretion. If an officer thinks someone’s behavior could lead to a fight or real harm, they can act. That is how the law is written. If you have a problem with that, argue with the statute, not with the fact that it was applied when the target happened to be Jewish.

The same accounts now screaming that only Jews are protected know perfectly well this isn’t unique. The same thing happens all the time with other groups, and nobody screams about conspiracies.

In August, a woman in Minnesota was charged with disorderly conduct for yelling racial slurs at an eight year old Black boy on a playground. Nobody claimed the Black community controls law enforcement. She even raised more than eight hundred thousand dollars after appealing for help online.

In July, two teenagers in Massachusetts were charged with disorderly conduct for screaming anti LGBTQ slurs at people in Provincetown. No one said the gays run the courts.

In August, a man in Connecticut was charged with breach of peace after shouting anti Muslim insults outside an Islamic center. Nobody accused Muslim control of the justice system.

But the second it happens to a Jew, the same corners of the internet light up about Jewish power. It is not outrage about the law. It is outrage that a Jew got the same protection anyone else would.

That is the double standard. Everyone agrees hate speech crosses the line when it is directed at anyone else. But when it is aimed at Jews, suddenly we are “too sensitive” and “controlling the narrative”.

Last week someone broke into a Jewish school in Brooklyn and drew swastikas all over the walls the night Zohran Mamdani won his election. Antisemites could not admit it was a hate crime because then they would have to take responsibility for the climate they have so meticulously created. So they claimed the vandal was Jewish and that it was a false flag.

That is their strategy. First they say antisemitic attacks don’t exist. Then when they’re caught on camera they say it’s free speech. And then if the police act, they scream Jewish control. It does not matter what the facts are. They will twist every outcome into a reason to hate Jews more.

If you are reading this, speak up. You do not want to live in a world where people like that get to control the narrative.

What they are really angry about is that, for once, a Jew didn’t just take it.