High School Girls Basketball Game in New York Cancelled After Antisemitic Slurs Hurled at Jewish Players-“I Support Hamas, You F’ing Jew” | The Gateway Pundit

On Thursday, a woman’s basketball recreation between The Leffell College, a non-public Jewish college in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt Excessive College, a public college in Yonkers, was canceled within the third quarter after gamers from Roosevelt hurled antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents.

In line with The New York Metropolis Public Colleges Alliance, a Roosevelt participant mentioned to 1 opponent,  “I help Hamas, you f–-ing Jew.”

In an op-ed for The Lion’s Roar, a student-run newspaper at Leffell, senior participant Robin Bosworth shared the small print of the disgusting show by the Roosevelt gamers in her piece, “Antisemitism on the Ladies Varsity Basketball Sport.”

Bosworth writes,

All through the primary half of our recreation towards Roosevelt Excessive College in Yonkers, there was a considerably hostile setting, with considerably extra jabs and feedback thrown on the gamers on our staff than what I’ve skilled up to now. Regardless of this, our staff selected to let their aggressiveness gas us going into the second half of the sport, as we continued to play passionately.

Nonetheless, all of that modified within the third quarter. Members of our staff began to get injured from the opposite staff’s bodily type of play. On the finish of the quarter, gamers on the opposing staff began shouting “Free Palestine” and different antisemitic slurs and curses at us. Attacking a staff due to their college’s spiritual affiliation isn’t acceptable, however particularly as a result of present battle in Israel and the world’s rise in antisemitism, this felt extraordinarily private to me and lots of members of my staff. I’ve performed a sport each athletic season all through my highschool profession, and I’ve by no means skilled this sort of hatred directed at considered one of my groups earlier than. On the finish of a basketball recreation, it’s customary to shake arms with each member of the opposing staff, to suggest that all the pieces that occurred through the recreation was in truth simply part of the sport. Regardless of our conflicting emotions about this observe, each member of my staff acted with respect and sophistication and lined as much as shake their arms. Nonetheless, being compelled to shake arms with and say “good recreation” to individuals who had expressed such hatred didn’t sit proper with me afterwards. If a staff reveals blatant disrespect in the direction of my staff and our faculty group’s values, it shouldn’t be tolerated or forgotten instantly following the sport.

In the end, Leffell’s head coach, John Tessitore, and his staff determined to finish the sport.

Leffell’s head of faculty, Michael Kay, wrote in a letter to the varsity group, “Our staff was enjoying on the street, and through the course of the sport, a small variety of gamers on the opposing staff directed hurtful, antisemitic feedback towards members of our staff.”

In line with The New York Post, about an hour into the sport and after a timeout was known as, Tessitore consulted with hello gamers and the referees.

The Roosevelt gamers are seen gathering and seem to alternate phrases from afar with the Leffell gamers. Safety steps in between each groups and the refs make an announcement earlier than each groups all of the sudden alternate handshakes and safety escorts them off the court docket.

Roosevelt Excessive College agreed to a voluntary forfeit, in keeping with a spokesman for the Yonkers district.

Though Roosevelt principal Edward DeChent apologized for the disgusting conduct of his college students, per the Submit,  and mentioned “investigative steps” had been taken and “outlined quite a lot of disciplinary penalties and academic responses,” a spokesman for the Yonkers Public Colleges district appeared to downplay the antisemitic conduct.

“It has come to our consideration {that a} student-athlete made a press release involving ‘free Palestine,’” the district mentioned. “This incident was promptly addressed in step with our district’s insurance policies and values.”

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano shared his considerations concerning the incident on social media.

to convene a gathering of academic, civic and spiritual leaders to debate this incident and give you suggestions as to what steps we will take as a group to stop something like this from taking place once more.

— Mayor Mike Spano (@MayorMikeSpano) January 7, 2024