{"id":1720388,"date":"2022-11-01T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720388"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:19:11","slug":"fans-deliver-silent-court-side-fight-anti-semitism-protest-to-nets-star-kyrie-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fans-deliver-silent-court-side-fight-anti-semitism-protest-to-nets-star-kyrie-irving\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Deliver Silent Court-Side \u2018Fight Anti-Semitism\u2019 Protest To Nets Star Kyrie Irving"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffans-deliver-silent-court-side-fight-anti-semitism-protest-to-nets-star-kyrie-irving%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720388&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Brooklyn Nets guard <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/f-that-its-the-playoffs-kyrie-irving-unloads-on-hecklers-after-boston-loss\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> was the target of a court-side protest on Monday, as a group of people filled the front row, the men wearing yarmulkes and all of them wearing matching t-shirts that read, \u201cFight anti-semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the protest quickly began to circulate on social media.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Quite the visual here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9FD3pfnUcL\">pic.twitter.com\/9FD3pfnUcL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alec Sturm (@Alec_Sturm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alec_Sturm\/status\/1587241356824662016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The protest came about after Irving shared a tweet Thursday \u2014 which appears to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/kyrie-irving-antisemitic-movie-postgame-presser-1234621117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been deleted<\/a> \u2014 including a clip from a movie titled \u201cHebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America.\u201d The film, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/kyrie-irving-boosts-antisemitic-movie-peddling-jewish-slave-ships-theory-1234620125\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolling Stone<\/a>, is based on a book of the same name by Ronald Dalton and is \u201cstuffed with anti-semitic tropes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should not keep a guy like that around,\u201d protester Aaron Jungreis told the New York Post\u2019s Ian O\u2019Connor. \u201cA lot of people are going to cancel. They have to discipline him in some way. We told him we love him anyway, even though we know he hates us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jungreis also said that Irving had responded to them, but when he told them he appreciated them, \u201che said it sarcastically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Jungreis, in &#8220;Fight anti-Semitism&#8221; shirt, on Kyrie Irving Part 2: &#8220;We told him we love him anyway, even though we know he hates us.&#8221; He said Irving told the 8 fans in those shirts that he appreciates them, but &#8220;he said it sarcastically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian O&#8217;Connor (@Ian_OConnor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ian_OConnor\/status\/1587267694310612992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Irving\u2019s tweet also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/sports\/nets-owner-says-disappointed-kyrie-irving-appeared-promote-antisemitic-rcna54654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caught the attention<\/a> of Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai, who tweeted his response last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 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,\u201d Tsai tweeted, adding, \u201cThis is bigger than basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is bigger than basketball<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Tsai (@joetsai1999) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joetsai1999\/status\/1586198076402069505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Irving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/nets-kyrie-irving-doubles-down-after-promoting-antisemitic-film-alex-jones-conspiracy-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initially responded<\/a> by doubling down, telling reporters on Saturday, \u201cI\u2019m not going to stand down on anything that I believe in.\u00a0I\u2019m only going to get stronger because I\u2019m not alone. I have a whole army around me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in 2022. It\u2019s on Amazon, public platform,\u201d he said of the film. \u201cWhether you want to go watch it or not is up to you. There\u2019s things being posted every day. I\u2019m no different than the next human being, so don\u2019t treat me any different. You come in here and make up this powerful influence that I have over the top [and say], \u2018You cannot post that.\u2019 Why not? Why not? Everybody posts everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He responded again to the backlash by claiming that he is an \u201cOmnist\u201d and did not mean to offend anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am an OMNIST and I meant no disrespect to anyone\u2019s religious beliefs. The \u2018Anti-Semitic\u2019 label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in everyday. I embrace and want to learn from all walks of life and religions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am an OMNIST and I meant no disrespect to anyone\u2019s religious beliefs. The \u201cAnti-Semitic\u201d label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in everyday. I embrace and want to learn from all walks of life and religions.<\/p>\n<p>H\u00e9l\u00e0\ud83e\udd1e\ud83c\udffe\u267e<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 H\u00e9l\u00e0 (@KyrieIrving) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyrieIrving\/status\/1586419512538451968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving was the target of a court-side protest on Monday, as a group of people filled the front row, the men wearing yarmulkes and all of them wearing matching t-shirts that read, \u201cFight anti-semitism.\u201d Photos of the protest quickly began to circulate on social media. Quite the visual here. pic.twitter.com\/9FD3pfnUcL \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1720391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}