Fired high school coach says he's 'scapegoat' over antisemitic slurs during game

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A high school girls basketball coach was fired after antisemitic slurs were hurled while he was coaching against a Jewish school.

Bryan Williams was coaching Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, N.Y., when a player on his team yelled "Free Palestine" toward an opponent playing for The Leffell School, an investigation found.

Williams, in his third year as the coach, says he's the school's "scapegoat" for what happened.

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Brian Williams was fired for "poor management" after at least one player from his team hurled antisemitic slurs at Jewish opponents. (iStock)

"It puts me in a bad light and makes people that don't know me think that I'm a monster, or I don't like Jewish people or I can't navigate in a multicultural world and that's a lie. A total lie," Williams told News 12 Westchester.

Williams said he was told he was let go because of "poor management skills," but he says there wasn't much he could do regarding the player's actions.

"I had nothing to do with it. I just coach my team. I can't control what somebody says on the court and most coaches can't," he said.

Yonkers interim superintendent Luis Rodriguez said "the fact that the coach was separated from employment with the Yonkers Public School District in no way even infer[s] that he was participating or that he condoned or that he acquiesced to any form of antisemitism."

A Wilson basketball during a game between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Dallas Wings July 22, 2023, at the College Park Center in Arlington, Texas.  (Michael Gonzales/NBAE via Getty Images)

The game between the two schools Thursday ended in the third quarter