The parents deny that antisemitism was part of the incident. The complaint said members of the football team “confirmed that there were no antisemitic remarks, and most did not know the freshman’s religion at the time.” The Rhode Island attorney general’s office has received a complaint from a parent of a Smithfield High School student alleging “that several other students assaulted and harassed the student based on his Jewish ancestry/ethnicity and religion in the locker room before football team practice” on Sept. 30." Jewish organizations have been told that five senior football players locked a Jewish freshman football player in...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
