I'm with Robin Boswell. No way would I have shaken hands with an opponent who had called me a "f***ing Jew" if I were a Leffell player.
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"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 parroting left-wing bigotry that they picked up from others.
"Senior Leffell player Robin Bosworth wrote in an op-ed for the school's student newspaper, "The Lion’s Roar":
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 theplayers 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.
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