Kyrie Irving Pushes Back on Antisemitic Labels After Promoting Movie

Kyrie Irving is the newest celeb being accused of antisemitism after selling a film that some say is filled with stereotypes and tropes — however the man’s saying he is being misunderstood.

The Nets star acquired slammed Friday for tweeting a hyperlink to a film known as … “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” which is on Amazon. It’s a controversial piece to say the least … leaning into excessive ideology from sure factions of Black Hebrew Israelites.

The complete concept behind that is that Black individuals even have Jewish roots themselves — and are, in truth, the “chosen people of God” versus Jews of European descent. Like we mentioned … extremely inflammatory, however it’s a prepare of thought a number of celebs have embraced in recent times. Kanye West, clearly, but in addition … Nick Cannon and Ice Cube, to call just a few.

Not solely does the doc Kyrie promoted focus on this, however it additionally reportedly spreads conspiracy theories … together with the declare that “white Jews,” because it had been, perpetuated the slave commerce and are, by and huge, in charge of the media/banking industries … amongst different accusations.

It’s a number of the identical stuff that acquired Kanye in hassle … and Kyrie’s been receiving a lot of the identical backlash, a lot in order that his boss — Nets proprietor Joe Tsai — mentioned one thing.

He condemned Kyrie’s tweet as hate-fueled, writing … “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.” Joe provides, that is larger than basketball.

KI defended himself Saturday, saying he meant no disrespect to anybody’s spiritual beliefs and including … “the ‘Anti-Semitic’ label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in everyday.”