#bet that the opponent will say they can't be racist

[beardedmrbean]

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.

At the end of the third quarter, her teammates were getting injured by the rough plays, and “players on the opposing team started shouting ‘Free Palestine’ and other antisemitic slurs and curses at us,” wrote Bosworth, also editor-in-chief of the school paper.

“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,” Bosworth said.

“Instead of responding to hatred with more of the same, we chose to separate ourselves from the situation and leave with dignity and pride in who we are and what we believe in,” she continued.

Lion’s head coach John Tessitore consulted with his squad and decided to end the game, according to Michael Kay, Leffell’s head of school.

“Our team was playing on the road, and during the course of the game, a small number of players on the opposing team directed hurtful, antisemitic comments toward members of our team,” Kay wrote in a letter to the school community.

About an hour into the game, a timeout was called, livestream footage shows, though no audio is heard. The Leffell players and Tessitore appear exasperated and he consults with the referees and the other team’s coach.

The Roosevelt players are seen gathering and appear to exchange words from afar with the Leffell players. Security steps in between both teams and the refs make an announcement before both teams suddenly exchange handshakes and security escorts them off the court.

Roosevelt High School agreed to a voluntary forfeit, according to a spokesman for the Yonkers district.

Students at the $ 45,000-a-year private day school were shocked by the on-court hate.

“This is my school and it’s just unacceptable and some of the things they said to my teammates are very disgusting,” one student wrote on the NYCPS Alliance post.

Kay said that Roosevelt’s athletic director Kyle Calabro has since apologized and said “the follow-up would be swift and appropriate.”

On Friday, Roosevelt principal Edward DeChent also apologized to Kay and described the “investigative steps” that had been taken and “outlined a number of disciplinary consequences and educational responses” including the possibility of an in-person meeting between both teams.

“I am incredibly proud of the manner in which our players and coaching staff responded to this potentially harrowing incident,” Kay said.

A spokesman for the Yonkers Public Schools district downplayed the shocking behavior.

“It has come to our attention that a student-athlete made a statement involving ‘free Palestine,'” the district said. “This incident was promptly addressed in line with our district’s policies and values.” ___________________-

Update

Yonkers high school boots girls' basketball coach, player after teens subjected to antisemitic attacks during game

[jbird-the-manwich]

I think all that needs to be said is that she chose to orchestrate this after the bigger 10K+ follower trad witch blogs left. I'm sorry that you and Briar ended up getting the brunt of it, but I genuinely think she saw you as easy pickings.

Well, it's starting to look like shes burning up in the fire she started. Dming people trying to proselytize, blocking and unblocking us (yes, I saw that, prim) to watch the attention we're receiving, and keep up with what we're saying, actively working extremely hard to continue the narrative that her ancient screenshots are indicative of wrong doing on my part when I wasn't even involved - all to prevent simply admitting she started this mess and was wrong about us being racist - no ones perfect, and briar and myself have no need to be seen as such - prim has way more to lose in this situation than we do, seeing as were on tumblr for giggles and shes trying to build an empire of it - and she may well have finally dug herself a hole deep enough to bury herself. Give someone enough rope, and all that. Scroll this blog and you'll find multiple messages from anons coming forward to say that they've been personally victimized by this girl. Shes still got people demanding proof from us that we're not racist, when you really can't prove a negative to begin with, and in any case the burden of proof is on the accuser, not the accused. Tumblrs idea of prosecution is ass backwards, performative, and reactive, to say the least, and at the end of the day, I can nope off of tumblr and it won't interfere with my career goals. Gambling is stupid when you bet the farm against an opponent with nothing on the table.