A Yonkers high school girls basketball coach has been fired and players removed from the team as a result of an anti-Semitic incident during a game against a Jewish high school, city officials told the New York Post. .
A game between the Leffel School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, New York, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, ended early Thursday morning after players from Roosevelt High School used anti-Semitic slurs against opposing players. . The slurs reportedly included, “I support Hamas, you damn Jew.”
Referees and security guards were needed to stop the game, and some escorted the Refelskool players off the court.
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A Yonkers high school girls basketball coach has been fired and players removed from the team as a result of an anti-Semitic incident during a game against a Jewish high school, city officials told the New York Post. . (St. Petersburg)
Yonkers Public Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Luis Rodriguez and Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano released a joint statement regarding the situation.
“Yonkers Public Schools, along with the City of Yonkers, sincerely apologizes to the students and community of Leffel School for the disgusting and offensive comments made toward the girls basketball team during a recent game against Roosevelt High School,” the statement read. mentioned in. via post.
New York high school girls basketball game canceled after anti-Semitic slurs directed at players: Report
“As a group, we do not and will not tolerate hate speech of any kind from our students or community,” the statement further reads.
“The anti-Semitic rhetoric allegedly directed at Leffel School student-athletes is abhorrent, inappropriate, and inconsistent with the values we have set for our young people,” the statement continued. There is.
According to Leffel player Robin Bosworth, who wrote about the incident in an article. school newspaper She is its editor-in-chief, and the first half was “a somewhat hostile environment with far more jabs and comments thrown at the players on the team than I have experienced in the past.”
Some of Leffell's players started getting injured in the third quarter, which Bosworth said was due to Roosevelt's “physical style of play.”
“At the end of the quarter, the players on the other team started screaming.” “Free Palestine” “While it is never acceptable to attack a team because of a school's religious affiliation, this is deeply personal to me, especially given the current war in Israel and the rise in anti-Semitism worldwide. and many members of my team.”
According to Leffel's player Robin Bosworth, the first half of the match was “a bit of a hostile environment with quite a few more jabs and comments being thrown at the players on my team than I've experienced in the past.” (Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images)
After Leffel's players began walking off the court during a timeout that lasted about an hour, coaches from both teams reportedly began talking to each other and then to the referee who called the game.
During this time, Roosevelt's players allegedly continued to exchange words with Leffel's players, requiring security to intervene. A school spokesperson told the Post that Roosevelt agreed to a voluntary ejection and the game was over.
Both teams lined up to shake hands as the game ended early, Bosworth said.
“Despite our conflicting feelings about his practice, all members of my team acted with respect and dignity and lined up to shake his hand,” she wrote. “But being forced to shake hands with people who expressed such hatred and say, 'Good game,' didn't sit well with me afterwards.”
After Leffel's players began walking off the court during a timeout that lasted about an hour, coaches from both teams reportedly began talking to each other and then to the referee who called the game. (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
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Roosevelt High School Athletic Director Kyle Calabro apologized to Leffel Principal Michael Kay, who heard from the former that “follow-up will be prompt and appropriate.”
FOX News' Joe Morgan contributed to this report.
