Women basketball gamers from a non-public Jewish highschool in New York had been reportedly met with antisemitic taunts — together with “I support Hamas, you f–king Jew” and “Free Palestine” — from their opponents throughout a latest recreation that was canceled because 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 crew’s recreation towards Roosevelt Excessive Faculty — a public college in Yonkers — as a “somewhat hostile environment.”
“[S]ubstantially more jabs and comments [were] thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past,” she wrote in an op-ed from her college paper, The Lion’s Roar.
Based on Bosworth, who the Put up stated can also be the paper’s editor-in-chief, issues took a flip within the third quarter when Roosevelt gamers shouted “Free Palestine” and “other antisemitic slurs and curses at us.”
One Roosevelt participant allegedly shouted “I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,” in accordance with the New York Public Faculties Alliance, a parent-teacher group devoted to preventing antisemitism, the Put up reported.
“I have played a sport every athletic season throughout my high school career, and I have never experienced this kind of hatred directed at one of my teams before,” Bosworth wrote.
Leffell’s head coach, John Tessitore, reportedly spoke to his crew and elected to finish the sport early, in accordance with head of faculty Michael Kay.
“Our team was playing on the road, and during the course of the game, a small number of players on the opposing team directed hurtful, antisemitic comments toward members of our team,” Kay wrote in a letter to the college neighborhood, per the Put up.
Roosevelt AD Kyle Calabro apologized and stated “the follow-up would be swift and appropriate,” in accordance with Kay, the Put up reported.
Roosevelt principal Edward DeChent additionally apologized to Kay Friday, in accordance with the Put up. DeChent reportedly additionally “outlined a number of disciplinary consequences and educational responses,” together with a doable in-person assembly between each groups.”
“I am incredibly proud of the manner in which our players and coaching staff responded to this potentially harrowing incident,” Kay stated, through the Put up.
