After Yonkers High School girls’ basketball players used anti-Semitic remarks against a Jewish team, the coach was fired.
The Yonkers club also lost a player to suspension.
The New York Post reports that on Thursday, athletes insulted players from the Leffell institution, a private Jewish institution, with derogatory remarks directed towards them. There have also apparently been dismissals from the team for players.
On Sunday, Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano and acting superintendent Dr. Luis Rodriquez released a joint statement about the incident.
The Yonkers Public Schools fired the coach and one player from the Roosevelt basketball team, according to a joint statement, following a careful examination of game footage and discussions with witnesses.
In the statement, neither the player nor the coach were named. The statement denounced anti-Semitism in its entirety as well.
The Yonkers Public Schools and the City of Yonkers issued a statement in which they expressed their heartfelt regret to the students and community of The Leffell School for the hurtful and derogatory remarks directed at their women’s basketball team during a recent game against Roosevelt High School. “The remarks made against The Leffell School’s student athletes that are purportedly antisemitic are disgusting, improper, and inconsistent with the ideals we instill in our youth.
The Leffell School is a Jewish day school in Hartsdale, New York that is private, coeducational, and grades K–12. The annual tuition is roughly $45,000. Roosevelt High School is a public high school in Yonkers, New York.
A Leffell player named Robin Bosworth submitted an opinion piece for her high school newspaper in which she stated that Roosevelt players had screamed “free Palestine” at her squad.
The other team’s players began yelling “Free Palestine” and other derogatory remarks and curses at us at the conclusion of the quarter, according to Bosworth. “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.”
The other team’s players began yelling “Free Palestine” and other derogatory remarks and curses at us at the conclusion of the quarter, according to Bosworth. “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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