{"id":516049,"date":"2022-11-26T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/black-hebrew-israelites-support-kyrie-irving-at-nyc-march\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:01:02","slug":"black-hebrew-israelites-support-kyrie-irving-at-nyc-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-hebrew-israelites-support-kyrie-irving-at-nyc-march\/","title":{"rendered":"#Black Hebrew Israelites support Kyrie Irving at NYC march"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3717d434159\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3717d434159\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-hebrew-israelites-support-kyrie-irving-at-nyc-march\/#%E2%80%9CBlack_Hebrew_Israelites_support_Kyrie_Irving_at_NYC_march%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Black Hebrew Israelites support Kyrie Irving at NYC march&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBlack_Hebrew_Israelites_support_Kyrie_Irving_at_NYC_march%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Black Hebrew Israelites support Kyrie Irving at NYC march&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Hundreds of members of a Black Jewish Israelite group chanted \u201cwe are the real Jews\u201d as they descended on Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center during pro-Kyrie Irving marches, videos show.<\/p>\n<p>A massive line of followers, all donning shirts of the group \u201cIsrael United in Christ,\u201d were captured Sunday bellowing \u201cwe\u2019ve got some good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\u201d and \u201cwe are the real Jews,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlainJaneDee_\/status\/1594440834761560064\">according to footage posted on social media<\/a>, which has since gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>Separate footage also shared to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> Monday shows a sea of purple shirts marching towards the Brooklyn Nets\u2019 arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack Hebrew Israelites out in force today, chanting \u2018we are the real Jews\u2019 and \u2018time to wake up,\u2019 as they marched toward the Barclay\u2019s Center in support of Kyrie Irving\u2019s return,\u201d Ari Ingel, director of the pro-Israel organization Creative Community for Peace, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OGAride\/status\/1594559767791345664\">tweeted alongside the clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group also handed out flyers outside arena that claimed to share the \u201ctruth about anti-Semitism,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-723255\">according to the Jerusalem Post<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>One of the handouts said the group\u2019s heritage was removed \u201cthrough the monstrous holocaust known as the trans-Atlantic slave trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-11.jpg?w=568\" alt=\"Videos showed demonstrators wearing &quot;Israel United in Christ&quot; shirts outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.\" class=\"wp-image-24788649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1136 1136w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=852 852w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=568 568w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=284 284w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-11.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\"\/><figcaption>Videos showed demonstrators wearing \u201cIsrael United in Christ\u201d shirts outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter \/ @PlainJaneDee_<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The group was there in support of Irving, the Nets point guard who was suspended after he posted a link on social media to a Holocaust-questioning movie called \u201cHebrews to Negroes: Wake up Black America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Israel United in Christ also protested at Barclays during Irving\u2019s suspension, with a deacon telling saying \u201cKyrie Irving himself understands that not only are we Semitic ourselves, but it is contradictory and hypocritical to say someone is anti-Semitic when they are Semitic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Israel United in Christ was founded in New York and now has 71 locations in the US, with claims that blacks and other people of color are the \u201cchildren of Israel,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/backgrounder\/extremist-sects-within-black-hebrew-israelite-movement\">according to the Anti-Defamation League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1001\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-01.jpg?w=1001\" alt=\"Protesters are heard chanting &quot;we are the real Jews&quot; in the video.\" class=\"wp-image-24788652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1502 1501w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1001 1001w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=501 500w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\"\/><figcaption>Protesters were heard chanting \u201cwe are the real Jews\u201d in the video.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter \/ @OGAride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The group\u2019s march <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to have coincided with Irving\u2019s return Sunday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> with the Memphis Grizzlies following a brief suspension and an apology from the hoopster.<\/p>\n<p>The viral videos in Brooklyn over the weekend sparked prompt backlash on social media, with the American Jewish Committee saying the \u201cwe are the real Jews\u201d was a \u201ctroubling anti-Semitic trope with dangerous potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot allow this supremacist ideology to spread and gain greater acceptance,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJCGlobal\/status\/1594763835009028096\">the group said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-14.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The protests coincided with Nets star Kyrie Irving's return from suspension.\" class=\"wp-image-24788680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-14.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-14.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-14.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The protests coincided with Nets star Kyrie Irving\u2019s return from suspension.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cClaiming Jewish people are \u2018Not the Real Jews\u2019 perpetuates antisemitism around the world,\u201d the statement added. \u201cSometimes, a vocal minority with fringe beliefs dominates the conversation simply because no one speaks up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flyers obtained by the Jerusalem Post handed out by the demonstrators proclaimed: \u201cYou are the children of the Slave Trade,\u201d and said \u201cthe prophets warned us that if we broke God\u2019s commandments, we would be punished as a people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another flyer quoted by the newspaper said there is a \u201cpattern of enslavement, systemic oppression, bullying, legal manipulation and anti-black political lobbying, including silencing black voices\u201d in media outlets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-13.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Irving was suspended after posting a social media link to a film with anti-Semitic tropes.\" class=\"wp-image-24788682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/protest-kyrie-13.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Irving was suspended after posting a social media link to a film with anti-Semitic tropes.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe biblical Israelites are targeted and accused of hate day and night without rest,\u201d the flyer said, according to the Jerusalem Post. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur knowledge of our heritage and laws has been systematically removed from us through the monstrous holocaust known as the trans-Atlantic slave trade. They may lie to the world and deny us of our birthright, yet Jesus the Christ, our Black Messiah, confirms the truth of who we are. We are not antisemitic, we are Semitic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown in now-deleted tweet wrote \u201cEnergy\u201d in a retweet of the video of the demonstration, but later said he had mistaken the group for an African-American fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD spokesperson said there were no arrests on file from the demonstration and couldn\u2019t provide a crowd estimate. The Post has reached out to a Barclays Center spokesperson.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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