Kyrie Irving Labeled “Anti-Semitic” To Which Responds,”Not Justified”

Kyrie Irving, a Brooklyn Nets guard, stated on Saturday night that he doesn’t think his social media posts endorsing an anti-Semitic movie and book were improper.

The movie “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” which is based on a book filled with anti-Semitic stereotypes, was supported by Kyrie Irving earlier this week.

The “label” of being anti-semitic has been applied to Irving in response to this aggressive promotion.

The assertions made in the movie, which include that “many notable high-ranking Jews” have “confessed” to “worship[ing] Satan or Lucifer,” were highlighted in a Rolling Stone article. According to the investigation, the movie was “venomously anti-Semitic.”

The Brooklyn Nets star took to Twitter to react to this backlash.

“I am an OMNIST, and I meant no disrespect to anyone’s religious beliefs. The “Anti-Semitic” label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in every day. I embrace and want to learn from all walks of life and religions,” he wrote on Twitter.

Team owner Joe Tsai and the Nets organisation condemned Kyrie Irving’s promotion on Friday.

“I’m disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-semitic disinformation. I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to all of us, and as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity or religion,” Tsai wrote in a Twitter message of his own.

Ronald Dalton, who both wrote and directed the film, is the author of the book on which the movie is based. The movie is said to reveal “what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have covered up in regards to the true biblical identity of the so-called “Negro” in this movie packed with tons of research,” according to a description on the Amazon Video website, which can be accessed through the link Irving tweeted.

The movie has elements of the Black Hebrew Israelites’ philosophy and makes claims about revealing the “real nature of the Children of Israel.”

 

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