HS basketball coach suspended after hanging Palestinian flag, refusing to handle Jewish coaches
AND Basketball at Colorado High School The coach was suspended after he was seen hanging on the Palestinian flag, and after refusing to squeeze his hand with an opponent’s coach after the match against the Jewish school last week.
The Lotus School of Excellence in Aurora and the Academy of Denver Torah competed against each other on 22 January. Said the Lotus School Denver’s 9 news That the main coach of the team, identified only as coach O., presented the Palestinian flag before the game and hanged it.
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Palestinian flag flying on top of the flag in the blue sky. (East)
After the game, the school said that the coach reacted to the flag again before he went on his hand line. The coach reportedly failed to handle the coaches of Denver Torah.
“Grab his flag and put it around his neck,” said Athletic director Lotus School Deon Jackson. “At that moment we saw the intention.”
Emrek Bakyt, school principalHe announced that the coach was suspended with another auxiliary coach, he said in the New York Post.
“That has nothing to do with the lotus,” Bakyt said. “It does not represent us, and we, again, all about respect and diversity. This is what we celebrate. This is what we are proud of.”
Brandon Rattiner, a member of the Council of Relations with the Jewish Community, condemned the coach’s procedures in an interview with New York Post.
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“I think everyone in Jewish community He is very aware that from October 7th she was a growing tide of anti -Semitism, “said Rattiner, who spoke on behalf of Denver Torah, he told work.” And we saw him in schools here and in the whole country on many different occasions. “
Rattiner added that he thought the “key problem” was when the coach refused to squeeze the Jewish coaches.
The coach and assistant coach both were suspended. (Lance King/Getty Images)
“The key question here is when the coach refuses to cooperate with the Jewish coach and the Jewish students simply because they are Jewish or holding them personally responsible for the conflict that has started, not Israel, by the way, in half the world thousands and thousands of miles away,” he said, ” is.
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“Holding Jewish people responsible for the state actions of Israel is a textbook form of anti -Semitism.”
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