New York high school girls basketball game called after antisemitic slurs toward players: report

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A high school girls' varsity basketball game in New York State was canceled Thursday after players from the visiting team were subjected to antisemitic slurs, according to the New York Post. 

The Leffell School, a Jewish day school in Hartsdale, faced Roosevelt High School, a public school  in Yonkers. According to Leffell player Robin Bosworth, who wrote about the game in her school's student paper, the first half of the game was played in a "somewhat hostile environment, with substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past."

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Bosworth is a senior and also the editor-in-chief of the school paper, according to the Post. 

In the third quarter, members of The Leffell School team began to be injured due to the opposing "team’s physical style of play," she wrote. 

"At the end of the quarter, players on the opposing team started shouting, ‘Free Palestine’ and other antisemitic slurs and curses at us," Bosworth wrote. "Attacking a team because of their school’s religious association is never acceptable, but especially due to the current war in Israel and the world’s rise in antisemitism, this felt extremely personal to me and many members of my team."

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