Kyrie Irving

Kyrie Irving has neither apologized for any unintended incitement nor acknowledged the growing animosity and violence toward Jews — especially among ...

Nothing that Irving has said or done since has stopped “Hebrews to Negroes” from becoming the best-selling book in multiple Amazon categories or delegitimized its hateful message. There is no truth in the claims in “Hebrews to Negroes” that there was no Holocaust or that today’s Jews usurped Judaism from blacks and should be punished for it. In fact, roughly 6 million Jews were murdered for being Jews during World War II; there is no historical support for a religious usurpation; and it is never OK to harass or attack Jews. Before his NBA reinstatement, Irving gave a 21-minute interview in which he spoke about how the controversy affected him: the discomfort he and his family have felt, how he loves all people, and finally, how he didn’t realize that it wasn’t safe to criticize certain groups. In fact, Irving has neither apologized for any unintended incitement nor even acknowledged the phenomenon of growing animosity and violence toward Jews — especially among American blacks. Unfortunately, much of the pushback so far treats the problem of anti-Semitism like an issue for classroom discussion, curable by tackling ignorance and rudeness.