Jewish Basketball Players Taunted With Chants of ‘Kanye West’ and Pictures of Sawstikas at Game in Los Angeles
“When our girls were shooting foul shots, some Buena Park students held up pictures of swastikas on their phones to distract them.”
This was a high school game. How was this behavior allowed to happen?
Algemeiner reports:
‘Kanye West!’: Jewish Basketball Players in Los Angeles Taunted During Game
Chants of “Kanye West!” and pictures of swastikas and the Palestinian flag were used in Los Angeles on Saturday night to taunt Jewish female basketball players during a game between the Shalhevet Firehawks and the Buena Park Coyotes, according to local reports.
“I started to feel really unsafe,” an anonymous student of Shalhevet School, a Modern Orthodox preparatory academy, told the California-based Jewish Journal on Sunday. “The game got very hectic. When our girls were shooting foul shots, some Buena Park students held up pictures of swastikas on their phones to distract them.”
Others heckling at Jewish spectators created an “unsafe” environment, the student added, explaining that supporters of the Coyotes chanted “Kanye West” at a Shalhevet student and threatened a post-game brawl. After the match, which Shalhevet lost by four points, the confrontations continued outside the gymnasium, with “yelling and screaming at one another” and Buena Park students “showing the Palestinian flags on their phones.”
Rabbi David Block, Shalhevet’s Head of School, told the Jewish Journal that high school sports is often fraught with emotion.
“At the beginning, we all sang Hatikvah, and everybody was respectful,” he said. “I didn’t personally experience any antisemitism at the game, which doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”
Rabbi Block added that Shalhevet will soon hold an assembly “where students can express their feelings with out faculty, staff, and guidance counselors.”
Saturday’s game is the second sports related antisemitic incident in the last week.
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But was anybody wearing a red baseball cap?
It’s time to leave. Save your children from this life. Make Aliyah.
Aliya is not the answer to this. The same crap and much worse exists in Israel too.
“Aliya is not the answer..” said my grandparents in Germany in 1939.
Aliya wasn’t the answer then either. Shanghai was a lot safer than Palestine (as it was then called). But the Jewish Agency and other communal institutions in Germany actively discouraged Jews from going there. And there were many other places that one could get to, perhaps not easily but a lot easier than Palestine, that also proved safer.
There are many good reasons to go on aliya. Safety is not one of them.
No. No, NO NO! America is my home. I am not packing my bags and running to some desert where I don’t know anyone and wouldn’t fit in in the first place.
It is time for Jews to stop “keeping suitcases handy”.
It is time for Jews to stop “keeping suitcases handy”.
Fur shure, Big Bear.
So what happened to the offending students? Expelled from school? Prosecuted?
Apparently nothing at all.
Then there’s this Catholic school in Florida that seems to have a similar problem.
Hardly. An on field ‘brawl’ happens in any sport fueled by the heat of battle. The fans apparently drew the pictures before the “match.”
Anti Semitism knows no political or ideological boundaries and can only be fought by proud committed and educated Jewish men women and their families.
The reports were careful to exclude the race of the taunters. Per Wikipedia Buena Park is 45% white, 40% Latino, 1% black.