Coach Brian Williams was expelled from Yonkers High School's girls basketball team after some players shouted anti-Semitic slurs at the visiting Jewish school team, saying the school used him as a scapegoat. claimed to have done so.
Last Sunday, the Roosevelt High School Early College Studies girls' basketball team in Yonkers, New York, played against the Leffel School, a private Jewish school. During the game, several female Roosevelt students allegedly shouted anti-Semitic slurs at the Jewish team.
“I support Hamas, you fucking Jew,” one player reportedly said.
Because of this, the school fired coach Brian Williams. When you talk to new york postWilliams said he “did a great job with the girls” during his three-year tenure with the team.
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Williams said she didn't hear any slurs.
“For me personally, I didn't hear anything like that on the court,” Williams said. “I don't condone what was allegedly done…I don't condone it. I'm focused on my team and what we have to do to win and be successful.”
Williams said the Yonkers School District “treated me unfairly.”
“They needed a scapegoat, and I was that scapegoat,” he said. “They needed a fall player.”
by postSunday's match “after what players described as an increasingly hostile match, with anti-Semitic slurs and security having to escort Leffelskool players off the court.” It ended early in the morning.
“The Yonkers kids played rough, shouting 'Liberate Palestine' and other anti-Semitic remarks throughout the contest,” senior player Robin Bosworth said. wrote in an editorial He added that he contributed to Leffel's student-run newspaper, Lion's Roar.
The game was eventually called off, and Roosevelt agreed to a forfeit. Yonkers Public Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Luis Rodriguez and Mayor Mike Spano issued a joint statement condemning the incident.
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“As a group, we do not and will not tolerate hate speech of any kind from our students or community,” the statement said. “The anti-Semitic rhetoric reportedly directed against student-athletes at the Leffel School is abhorrent, inappropriate, and inconsistent with the values we have set for our youth. .”
Mr Williams said: post That the match didn't go that way.
“We were just playing basketball,” Williams said, adding that he warned the girls to “behave appropriately.”
“I told them that, everyone,” he said.
“I can't say who did what,” Williams said. “All I was focused on was my team and how we were playing and what we needed to do to be successful and win. We won by a wide margin. I was shocked because I couldn't believe my daughters would do something like that again.”
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