Brooklyn Nets' Kyrie Irving promotes 'venomously antisemitic' movie leaving his team fuming

Brooklyn Nets' Kyrie Irving promotes 'venomously antisemitic' movie leaving his team fuming
Kyrie Irving has received flak for promoting a film that reportedly peddled 'antisemitic misinformation' (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK : The 2018 movie 'Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,' which has long been criticized for being loaded with antisemitic misinformation, was the subject of Kyrie Irving’s tweet and Instagram post on Thursday, October 28. The book and the movie emphasize that "Blacks have been told lies about their heritage" and claims to "uncovers the true identity of the Children of Israel."

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Both collate ideas that are in line with "more extreme factions of the Black Hebrew Israelites, which have a long history of misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and especially antisemitism," according to a Rolling Stone article. The allegations made in the book and movie also suggests "many notable high-ranking Jews" had "confessed to worship[ing] Satan or Lucifer," making Rolling Stone dub the works "venomously antisemitic."