The Dallas chapter of the Anti-Defamation League said it is “hopeful” the arrival of Kyrie Irving will be a positive development for the city — and that it takes the NBA superstar at his word that he is sorry for sharing a link to a film that espouses antisemitic views and conspiracy theories.
“The Dallas Mavericks have been exceptional allies in the fight against antisemitism and hate in all forms so we are hopeful that Kyrie’s arrival in Dallas will be a positive one, both on and off the court,” the Jewish civil rights organization said in a prepared statement Monday, a day after it was reported that the Mavericks and owner Mark Cuban, who is Jewish, were trading for Irving.
The trade came months after the NBA champion and eight-time All-Star tweeted a link to a film containing Black Hebrew Israelite ideology. At the most basic level, Black Hebrew Israelites believe modern African Americans are descended from the biblical Israelites from the Old Testament.
That position leaves open the question of where white Jews are descended from, and some variations of Black Hebrew Israelite ideology take the answer to more extreme and antisemitic places than others.
The film Irving tweeted about came “pretty close to the most extremist variations of that movement,” Bennett Clifford, a senior research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told The Dallas Morning News on Monday.
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