Women basketball gamers from a non-public Jewish highschool in New York had been reportedly met with antisemitic taunts — together with “I assist Hamas, you f–king Jew” and “Free Palestine” — from their opponents throughout a latest recreation that was canceled on account of the hostility, according to a New York Post exclusive.
Robin Bosworth, a senior at The Leffell Faculty (Hartsdale, NY), described the primary half of her workforce’s recreation in opposition to Roosevelt Excessive Faculty — a public faculty in Yonkers — as a “considerably hostile surroundings.”
“[S]ubstantially extra jabs and feedback [were] thrown on the gamers on our workforce than what I’ve skilled previously,” she wrote in an op-ed from her faculty paper, The Lion’s Roar.
Based on Bosworth, who the Put up stated can be the paper’s editor-in-chief, issues took a flip within the third quarter when Roosevelt gamers shouted “Free Palestine” and “different antisemitic slurs and curses at us.”
One Roosevelt participant allegedly shouted “I assist Hamas, you f–king Jew,” in keeping with the New York Public Colleges Alliance, a parent-teacher group devoted to preventing antisemitism, the Put up reported.
“I’ve performed a sport each athletic season all through my highschool profession, and I’ve by no means skilled this type of hatred directed at considered one of my groups earlier than,” Bosworth wrote.
Leffell’s head coach, John Tessitore, reportedly spoke to his workforce and elected to finish the sport early, in keeping with head of college Michael Kay.
“Our workforce was taking part in on the highway, and through the course of the sport, a small variety of gamers on the opposing workforce directed hurtful, antisemitic feedback towards members of our workforce,” Kay wrote in a letter to the college neighborhood, per the Put up.
Roosevelt AD Kyle Calabro apologized and stated “the follow-up could be swift and applicable,” in keeping with Kay, the Put up reported.
Roosevelt principal Edward DeChent additionally apologized to Kay Friday, in keeping with the Put up. DeChent reportedly additionally “outlined various disciplinary penalties and academic responses,” together with a attainable in-person assembly between each groups.”
“I’m extremely happy with the way by which our gamers and training workers responded to this doubtlessly harrowing incident,” Kay stated, by way of the Put up.
