Antisemitic Slurs Yelled at Jewish Players Cause Cancelation of Girls’ High School Basketball Game in Yonkers, NY
“I support Hamas, you f–king Jew”
A girls’ high school basketball game in Yonkers, New York, was ended abruptly this week when players for Roosevelt High School yelled anti-Semitic slurs at players for the Leffell School, a Jewish school.
Where do you think these young people are picking this up? Who is teaching them this?
"'I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,' a Roosevelt player snarled at a Leffell opponent."
"A high school girls’ basketball game in Yonkers was canceled this week when players on the home team shot antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who needed security guards to escort…
— Eli Steele (@Hebro_Steele) January 6, 2024
From the New York Post:
NY girls HS basketball game canceled after antisemitic slurs hurled at players
This was flagrant and foul.
A high school girls’ basketball game in Yonkers was canceled this week when players on the home team shot antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who needed security guards to escort them off the court to safety.
The girl’s varsity teams from The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, faced off in the non-league game Thursday evening.
“I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled at a Leffell opponent, according to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a group of parents and teachers fighting antisemitism.
From the outset, there was hostility and aggression with “substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past,” senior player Robin Bosworth wrote in an op-ed for Leffell’s student-run newspaper, The Lion’s Roar.
Here’s an excerpt from the article in the Lion’s Roar:
Antisemitism at the Girls Varsity Basketball Game
Ever since I started school at what was then Solomon Schechter School of Westchester in kindergarten, I have always felt incredibly proud to be a part of a community that values kindness and Tikkun Olam above all else. This evening, at a Girl’s Varsity Basketball game, I was reminded of the pride I feel for our school community, and more broadly, what it means to be a Jewish-American teenager.
Throughout the first half of our game against Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, there was a somewhat hostile environment, with substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past. Despite this, our team chose to let their aggressiveness fuel us going into the second half of the game, as we continued to play passionately.
However, all of that changed in the third quarter. Members of our team started to get injured from the other team’s physical style of play. At the end of the quarter, players on the opposing team started shouting “Free Palestine” and other antisemitic slurs and curses at us. Attacking a team because of their school’s religious association is never acceptable, but especially due to the current war in Israel and the world’s rise in antisemitism, this felt extremely personal to me and many members of my team. 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.
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This does not happen by accident. It would be very interesting to ask the players who used this language who has influenced their thinking on this issue.
UPDATE: The coach of the school who used the slurs is out.
The New York Post reports:
Yonkers high school boots girls’ basketball coach, player after antisemitic slurs during game
Yonkers canned a high school girls basketball coach and booted a player off the team after an ugly antisemitic incident at a recent game against a Jewish high school, city officials said Sunday.
The Thursday night game between the Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, ended early after some kids from Roosevelt shot antisemitic slurs at their opponents — including one who allegedly said, “I support Hamas, you f–king Jew.”
Security guards had to escort Leffell School players off the court following the hostile contest.
On Sunday, Yonkers Public Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Luis Rodriguez and city Mayor Mike Spano issued a joint statement denouncing the hatred and apologizing for the vitriol the visiting team faced.
“The Yonkers Public Schools, along with the City of Yonkers, sincerely apologize to the students and community of The Leffell School for the painful and offensive comments made to their women’s basketball team during a recent game with Roosevelt High School,” the statement said.
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My guess is that the parents of the kids from each school vote uniformly for Dems.
“Vote Blue no matter what!”
So what if that’s true (and, it’s an assumption without evidence)? This kind of Jew-hate is despicable and evil, and, I don’t give a damn what the political predilections of the victims or their parents are — no one should be subjected to this behavior.
Right on!
Immediately, reporters from the AP rushed in and joined the audience.
If the etnicity of the players were different, it would have been blasted into the media, followed by Ben Crump and the obligatory March and mostly peaceful looting.
Now imagine if the same type of thing was done to a team composed of primarily black girls.
People would be arrested at minimum.
The game should be awarded to the Jewish girl’s team for the abuse.
They sent over 10 FBI agents to investigate a freaking garage door pull that a cursory glance at a picture would tell you was a hoax.
But that’s because Jews are the ‘oppressors’, so its perfectly acceptable to be openly racist against them.
I don’t think you can overstate how big of a story something like that would be, particularly as we head into an election year. Gigantic. There would be marches, maybe riots and it would dominate the news cycle for weeks.
At a minimum, a half dozen statues would need to be ripped from their foundations and tossed into the Hudson.
Not just for yelling things. That would be free speech, just as this was.
The government can’t do anything about the speech. The schools and the sports leagues can enforce codes of sportsmanship. The schools can and should demand better behavior or exile the miscreants.
Arrested, maybe not… but the media firestorm would be brutal. We know this because it has happened, and it was. Even when in those cases, the complaint turned out to be false.
HBC’s allegations of fan racism debunked (2023-10-04)
Racist comments at BYU volleyball never happened (2022-08-30)
Complaints of racist taunts at soccer game unfounded (2021-10-06)
“Shame tortillas” thrown at basketball game supplied by adult Hispanic CRT activist, possibly in hopes of creating racial incident (2021-09-19)
Fan calling mascot named “Dinger,” not using N-word (2021-08-09)
Ironically, the Jewish team can prove that this DID happen. Let’s see the firestorm, media.
Arrested, definitely not. But yes, the firestorm would be brutal, and the consequences would be at least what they were in this case: the coach fired and the kid who yelled the slur kicked off the team.
It was. The Roosevelt team agreed to a forfeit.
That was ridiculous, but the excuse was that the noose might have been a true threat, directed as it was alleged to have been at a specific individual. It was an obviously false excuse, but they did need one; they couldn’t just investigate it because “hate”.
Yes, very likely, unless something else came along to distract the public’s attention.
“There would be marches, maybe riots and it would dominate the news cycle for weeks.
Yes, very likely, unless something else came along to distract the public’s attention.”
Surely you aren’t so naive as to think the interest of the PUBLIC creates the news cycle.?
This case, while despicable, will not be rewarded with much media attention because it does not forward Teh Narrative. Had slurs been directed at a black team, it would have been widely exploited in the media as proof of that elusive systemic racism they chase.
It’s called trash-talking. It has a long history in women’s basketball. Imus got fired for calling it out.
Not even close
So then it is okay to use the n word against opponents in sports?
It used to be. It isn’t any more. Trash talk is still accepted, but certain topics and words are now considered out of bounds and there are severe consequences for those who didn’t get the message. As happened in this case, though perhaps not enough.
What a pretentious ass you are.
What about when the girls have to wear Jewish stars on their jerseys?
Based on the number of comments in your Disqus account, you must post on many other blogs. Can’t you spend more time on one of the other ones and less time on this one?
America has too many scheming Muslims, stop all further immigration, expel all who are not citizens. These problems will only become worse if we fail to aggressively address this now.
France and Sweden are exhibits A and B.
Letting them come into our country in large numbers, and especially doing it in a way that allows them to not assimilate into our society is basically a slow-motion societal suicide.
Some years ago, I attended a community meeting on diversity featuring an immigrant Moslem woman. I happened to be sitting next to a member of the diversity committee, so I asked her where the featured speaker was from. The sweet young thing looked at me in. horror, and replied curtly that she didn’t know,. The speaker mentioned repeatedly that she was from Pakistan. What went uncommented on by anyone after her speech was that there were several family males standing at the back of the room, and that she had described her phone ap that announced the five daily prayer times and which showed her the direction towards Mecca. Not another woman in that room travelled with male members of her family present, and no one prayeds five times a day. So how did they think this woman could assimilate in American society? Or what about her sons? Beats me.
I hope you’ve recovered from the vapors when you discovered there are immigrants in the US who practice Islam. Is someone paying for your therapy is it an out-of-pocket expense?
“Wow, that’s some top-notch commentary there.”
I’m frankly not sure how these details indicate successful or unsuccessful assimilation.
I think the line falls somewhere identifiable along the continuum of “I want to be free to do my own thing,” “everybody else has to accommodate me,” and “everybody else has to do what I do.”
Being accompanied by males and praying five times a day is really not qualitatively different from wearing odd hair and archaic clothes (Hasidim), discouraging external social interaction and eschewing technology (Amish), or even living your life in silence and voluntary communism (monastic Catholics). (Note that during Victorian times, escorts for unmarried women was standard even in European and US cultures. Annie Oakley was a shocking non-conformist!)
When you force others to accommodate you (“all government forms must be printed in Aramaic!”) because you can’t or won’t learn English, that’s not assimilating.
When you force non-believers to answer to Sharia law instead of constitutional law, that’s way over the line.
Assimilation shouldn’t be measured in terms of the weird things you do, but in the weird burdens you impose upon others.
Exactly so. The problem is plenty of people don’t buy that separation.
The cultural and government problem with “Islam” is that for many, its practice *requires* government by a totalitarian theocracy.
The diversity speaker’s monitors and “do this now” app is no weirder than cross-fitters. We tolerate them among us. Indeed, even when they mock us, we just mock the right back. “What did that tractor tire ever do to you? But you show em. Yay, diversity!”
Myself, I’m a proud patriot in The United States of Mind Your Business — I l0ve it because of how little I have to care what you do. Give me all the not caring.
Islam is a totalitarian government disguised as a religion. Though that seems odd today, once upon a time it was de rigueur. Western societies practiced a moderate form: their royalty was ordained so by God, and therefore deserved your obedience. In Japan, they went full bore — the Emperor himself was a literal deity. If any religions or governments still retain such a conceit in this age other than Islam, I’m not aware of them.
What a pathetic loser you are.
Looked in a mirror lately?
“Wow, that’s some top-notch commentary there.”
So, in other words, HS girls basketball is actually a lot like the NBA.
Not sure I understand the downvotes. The NBA isn’t repleate with anti-Semitic america hating racists?
As a former basketball official, I am disgusted at the crew that officiated the game. If that kind of chirping and hard physical play started earlier in the game, the officials should have started T’ing up players and the head coach.
After the head coach and a few players are ejected for flagrant misconduct the game can be finished. Having a team walk off the court because of this behavior is unacceptable.
From what I see, I don’t find evidence that it was the officiating crew that made the decision.
Hmm. I wonder what diversity the other team was. Could it be the same group that fights at McDonalds over ketchup? Or maybe the group that has flash and grabs at department stores? Does anyone want to bet against me?
Probably 50/50. I think these are rich schools. Half are there on “hardship” scholarships because they play sports well and the other half are spoiled rich kids who probably sit on the bench.
Look at the picture they are negros
Wow, that’s some top-notch commentary there.
Right up there with, “But the Emperor is NAKED!”
“Wow, that’s some …”
You get the point. (That you have none.)
Yeah, gonzotx. Blame the negros. Maybe you should just come clean and call them n—-ers, which is exactly what you think of them based on your posts here. Go to hell you racist.
I love how the mouth breathers here circle the wagons and defend the gutter level shit spewed by gonzo, that inarticulate moron JohnSmith, and the ultimate loser EH Hunt. All just giving ammo to the idiots on the left who portray conservatives as a bunch of racist shit bags.
Roosevelt High School is a public school, so no fees, no scholarships, no rich kids, and very few white kids.
The ratio of white to black girls on the offending team does not matter. I know from the experience I had with my daughter in fast-pitch softball. She was a pitcher and every time we played a black or mostly black team she and her fellow players were treated to insults, physical incidents, and overall an unsportsmanlike game. Even their coaches were nasty and tried to influence the outcome by doing things that were distracting during play. You bleeding hearts can go to hell because I know from experience that they are not like us. They are bloodthirsty and will do anything to win against whites. My son played in a 12-year-old football league and had grown men change jerseys with the black 12-year-olds to beat his football team. We saw the exchange of jerseys and they had no honor or morals. Of course, there are ethical blacks but they are not the norm in our society.
The coach of the abusing team should have defaulted. That would have been a lesson to his players that “hate has no place here,” to quote the Left’s own mantra. Instead, they’ve been taught that hate will be rewarded as long as they hate who they’re told to.
I’m not sure how they were rewarded? The game was cancelled and there will either be no contest or a forfeit.
That;’s what wrong. The game should have been forfeited, with the Jewish school getting the win. Thew officials were wrong.
So just to be clear, you support an involuntary forfeit by a team being mean to another team? I don’t like what was done here any more than you but this is the type of slippery slope that leads to Karens cancelling ppl.
My mistake, I misread the Post story: “Roosevelt High School agreed to a voluntary forfeit, according to a spokesman for the Yonkers district.” So the result may have been exactly what I suggested.
It was forfeited, the coach has since been fired, and the player who yelled the slur has been kicked off the team.
Good. An appropriate response. I just wish things would quit being canceled because of one or two idiots. Their goal is disruption, stop giving them what they want.
Also, where were the Refere’s? They should have handled it by kicking the kid out of the game.
We are witnessing the ugly results of decades of Muslim supremacist Jew-hate and dishonest/slanderous vilification of Israel, gleefully and enthusiastically propagated and promoted by lazy and stupid Dhimmi-crats in academia, the media and in political office.
The simple fact is that Jew-hate — rationalized through the most unfair and dishonest vilification of Israel and Israeli Jews, and, Zionism, — has been a mainstream tenet of the vile and evil Dhimmi-crats going back to at least narcissist-incompetent and dunce, Obama’s, rotten tenure.
I didn’t catch the part of the story that said the Roosevelt players are Muslim.
“Wow, that’s some top-notch commentary there.”
That’s all you’ve got, isn’t it, you inarticulate toolbag.
It’s more than anything you’ve presented to the forum, you festering pusbag pissant.
Don’t be so manifestly obtuse, “Thad.”
I was referring to the general climate of Jew-hate being incited by the Dhimmi-crats, by fairly referring to the behavior at issue as being the “results” of decades of Muslim supremacist hate and propaganda vilifying Jews and Israel — directly and contemptibly enabled and parroted by the Dhimmi-crat Party and people in media and in academia.
There are myriad black non-Muslims in the U.S. who are gleeful Jew-haters — are you ignorant of that phenomenon, too?
You don’t have to be Muslim to be a Jew-hater, as we’ve witnessed, of late.
Pay attention a read more closely, “Thad” — I didn’t state that the culprits were Muslim. plenty of non-Muslim Dhimmi-crats are raving Jew-haters — see the Hispanic and Indian-American physicians who recently slandered Jewish American physicians in a manner right out of Goebbels’ propaganda playbook, by accusing “Zionist” doctors of allegedly putting the lives of patients “of color” at risk.
Read comments more carefully, before you mouth off in ignorance.
C’mon, guy — “Thad” isn’t here to contribute to the discourse. He’s only here to display his ignorance when he mouths off. Reading comments more carefully isn’t in his repertoire — or his mental capacity.
Thad, I’m normally with you on this, but on this occasion you slipped up, as Guy Jones correctly pointed out. His point is correct; decades of Moslem supremacist Jew-hatred and vilification of Israel, tolerated and supported by non-Moslem leftists in academia, the news industry, and political office, have created an atmosphere in which non-Moslem antisemites no longer bother hiding their ugly natures and feel free to behave like this and worse.
The Bible tells us that the Jews are God’s chosen people. I support the right of Israel to exist, and to defend herself and retaliate against Hamas for the 10/7 attrocities.
However, I don’t consider “f***in’ Jew” to be a slur, or “f***in’ black” or “f***in’ Arab” either. The referees could call penalties for poor sportsmanship, if that is even a thing anymore. If it isn’t, it should be.
“Jew” can still be a slur, depending on the tone of voice. When preceded by “f***ing” it is always spoken in that tone of voice, and is always a slur. And “I support Hamas” is exactly the same as “I support the KKK”; when spoken to a Jew it is the same as saying “I support the KKK” to a black person.
It’s perfectly legal, of course, but it’s not acceptable in society and it’s something for which even a public school is entitled to discipline a student, as well as something that sports authorities nowadays no longer allow as part of trash talk.
If you have Jewish kids, get them out. It’s time to leave. http://Www.nbn.org.il.
Roosevelt High School in Yonkers fires basketball coach, kicks player off team after antisemitic incident during game:
report: Leffell School, a private Jewish school, alleged antisemitic slurs from Roosevelt High ended game early.
A teachable moment, perhaps?
Sacked the coach, and dismissed one player from the team — but only after the fact of national outrage, of course.
What is the take of the rest of the team about that player shouting abusive language – were they OK with it? What duties do the referees have regarding the conduct of abusive players during the game? Surely there were multiple opportunities for intervention to prevent, or a least bring a halt to, such repulsive behavior….none of which were undertaken.
Against that, the apology from the school rings rather hollow.
“However, all of that changed in the third quarter. Members of our team started to get injured from the other team’s physical style of play.”
This may have been a non-league game, but the players should be banned from whatever league they belong to, for poor sportsmanship. This is unacceptable behavior. I agree that the coach should have been sacked, and the shouting player dismissed, but it sounds like the general behavior of the team must also be addressed.
Notice that sign, Roosevelt HS, “Early College Studies.” Yes, indeed, they’re getting taught in h.s. what a whole lot of colleges are teaching, so they’ll be really well prepared.
Roosevelt forfeited the game. What should happen is that every sport at Roosevelt is disqualified for the remainder of this semester. Do you really think the girls basketball team is the only part of Roosevelt HS infected with this disease?
The school in question is named after Theodore Roosevelt, not Franklin or Elanor.
Ah! Well, that explains why they are bullies!