Kyrie Irving back in the storm: promoting an anti-Semitic film

Staying away from controversy is certainly not his specialty. Kyrie Irving has in fact combined another. After last season spent almost entirely in the pits for refusing to vaccinate against Covid, now the Nets play, convinced flat-earther, has gone further, promoting an anti-Semitic film on his Twitter account.

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As written by the “Rolling Stones” magazine in recent days, Kyrie advertised the film, based on a book, entitled “From hebrews to negroes: wake up America”, or “from Jews to blacks: wake up America”, full of phrases anti-Semitic. Brooklyn franchise owner Joe Tsai reacts quickly: “I am disappointed that Irving seems to be promoting a film based on a book full of anti-Semitic disinformation. I want to sit with him and make him understand how much this hurts us all, and, as a man of faith, how wrong it is to promote hatred on a racial, ethnic or religious basis ”.

The film, however, is not recent, but it was released in theaters in 2018, while the writing is three years earlier. The Nets also wanted to make their voices heard with a statement: “The Brooklyn Nets strongly condemn and do not tolerate the promotion of any form of verbal violence. We believe that in these situations the first thing to do is to open an honest dialogue. who, like the ADL (anti-defamation league, ed.) has been close to us these days “. No word – so far – instead from Irving.