Rejection in the NBA: Kyrie Irving promoted an anti-Semitic film

Kyrie Irving He was once again the protagonist of a new scandal in his career because the basketball player of the Brooklyn Nets promoted an antisemitic film and received multiple criticisms from the owner of the franchise, Joe Tsaiadded to the institution belonging to the NBA.

In the run-up to this Thursday’s defeat against the Dallas Mavericks with 39 points of its authorship, Irving made a post on his personal Twitter account without any particular inscription, since he only attached a link to amazon so they can buy the movie Hebrews to Blacks: wake up Black America.

This feature film was released in 2018 and is based on a book published in 2015 with the same title. As reported by the portal rolling stone, this footage claims that “many high-ranking famous Jews have admitted to worshiping Satan or Lucifer,” among other libelous claims.

Despite the commotion that this publication aroused, the 30-year-old Australian point guard has not yet deleted the post and has not shown remorse either. This action generated criticism from the owner of the Nets: “I am disappointed that Kyrie (Irving) is showing up to support a movie based on a book filled with anti-Semitic misinformation. I want to sit down and make sure you understand that this hurts all of us, and as a man of faith, it’s wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity, or religion.”

The institution itself also repudiated these statements through a statement released by ESPN: “The Brooklyn Nets strongly condemn and have no tolerance for the promotion of any form of hate. We believe that in these situations, our first action should be honest and open dialogue. We thank those, including the ADLA (Anti-Defamation League), who have been supportive during this time.”

The Muslim player with a past in the Cleveland Cavaliers Y boston celtics He added a new fact that raised criticism outside the courts, after he had declared himself in favor of the flat-earth theory four years earlier. “They deceive us, the Earth is flat,” he said, although he later apologized: “Even if you believe in it, don’t go out and say it that way. That’s for private conversations. The perception of how it is said and how it is received changes, but I am not very smart to say”.

“At the time I didn’t calibrate the scope, I was more like saying, ‘I’m a big conspiracy theorist.’ For all the science teachers who have come to me and told me that they had to redo their curriculum, so sorry”, he added.

The pandemic for Covid-19 brought his last and most resounding appearance by coming out against vaccination when he gave him a I like it to a conspiracy publication about what is “secret societies that want to connect black people with a computer for a plan of Satan.”

In addition, he had published on his social networks that he had stopped wearing the mask or face mask and encouraged his followers to follow this advice. This position forced him to miss several games of the Brooklyn Nets by the requirements established by some states in reference to vaccination.

“I had to deal with all of this, all of the uncertainty around me about signing the contract, my future in the league. About losing my job in real life for making this decision not to get vaccinated”, said the basketball player who played only 29 games in the 2020/21 campaign and sentenced: “I have given up a four-year contract and one hundred and something million dollars for not getting the vaccine. And that was my decision.”

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