Nets owner says he is 'disappointed' after Kyrie Irving appeared to promote antisemitic film
Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai said he is "disappointed" after all-star guard Kyrie Irving appeared to promote a film deemed antisemitic. "I want to sit down
Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai said he is "disappointed" after all-star guard Kyrie Irving appeared to promote a film deemed antisemitic.
"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 tweeted Friday. "This is bigger than basketball."
Irving tweeted a link Thursday to the 2018 movie "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America." It's based on Ronald Dalton's book of the same name.
Rolling Stone magazine said the movie is filled with "antisemitic tropes" and seemingly adopts ideas that are more in line with extreme factions of the Black Hebrew Israelites, which have long been associated with homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia.
The Anti-Defamation League said the Black Hebrew Israelites are divided into sects that "operate semi-independently."
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