High School Girls Basketball Game in New York Cancelled After Antisemitic Slurs Hurled at Jewish Players-“I Support Hamas, You F’ing Jew”
Image: Screenshot of Roosevelt High School Broadcast Courtesy of The New York Post
On Thursday, a girl’s basketball game between The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, was canceled in the third quarter after players from Roosevelt hurled antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents.
According to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a Roosevelt player said to one opponent, “I support Hamas, you f–-ing Jew.”
In an op-ed for The Lion’s Roar, a student-run newspaper at Leffell, senior player Robin Bosworth shared the details of the disgusting display by the Roosevelt players in her piece, “Antisemitism at the Girls Varsity Basketball Game.”
Bosworth writes,
Throughout the first half of our game against Roosevelt High School in Yonkers,
