A high school girls’ basketball game in Yonkers, New York, was abruptly ended on Thursday after players on the home team hurled antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who ultimately needed security guards to escort them off the court to safety.
Members of Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, NY, faced “substantially more jabs and comments” than they had “experienced in the past.”
“I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,” a Roosevelt player hurled at a Leffell player, according to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a group of parents and teachers fighting antisemitism.
This incident was beyond troubling, given that the offending members of the Roosevelt High School team likely had little or no knowledge or understanding of the history of the Middle East — and, one would hope, given some of the disgusting slurs, of Hamas — and were simply…
