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CBS News reports:
Outside of Barclays Center on Sunday, hours before the Brooklyn Nets’ game against the Memphis Grizzlies, a large crowd of Black Hebrew Israelites gathered in support of Kyrie Irving, who is returning from a suspension.
Irving was suspended on Nov. 4, a week after he’d publicized an antisemitic film on social media and repeatedly refused to apologize or state that he doesn’t hold antisemitic beliefs. Many of the Black Hebrew Israelites outside the arena handed out flyers containing Hebrew Israelite propaganda.
Black Hebrew Israelites also handed out that brochure on Nov. 9, before the Nets’ game against the New York Knicks, which was their only home game during Irving’s suspension. On Sunday, however, the group of supporters was much larger.
Read the full article. The clip below already has 4.5 million views. The Black Israelites can often be found in Times Square screaming anti-gay abuse over a megaphone. The SPLC has long classified them as an extremist hate group.
Kyrie Irving has a lot of support outside of Barclays Center today
(Via @PlainJaneDee_) pic.twitter.com/DQpSAJ0ool
— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) November 20, 2022
left early to the nets losing and got yelled at by some black Israelites. my nostalgia for home is at an all time high. see you next week, Brooklyn. ? pic.twitter.com/zwQBXaTbC1
— meta (@metaxblack) November 14, 2022
Black Hebrew Israelites are outside Barclays Center singing ahead of Kyrie Irving’s return from suspension tonight pic.twitter.com/Gay3YkcRnN
— Kristian Winfield (@Krisplashed) November 20, 2022
As a gay, Jewish New Yorker, seeing the Black Israelites — a group that objects to my existence on both fronts — gather outside of the Barclays Center to support Kyrie is absolutely terrifying.
And this answer is cowardly at best, sinister at worst from Kyrie. https://t.co/nrkoBIUnib
— Meredith Cash (@mercash22) November 21, 2022