Kyrie Irving
NBA player (Brooklyn Nets)
Promoted a film containing Holocaust denial and blood-libel content.
What happened
Tweeted a link to the film “Hebrews to Negroes,” which contains Holocaust denial, a fabricated Hitler quote, and claims that Jews are satanic. In follow-up media he repeatedly declined to say he held no antisemitic beliefs.
Under each definition
Example 4: promoting material that denies the Holocaust, plus blood-libel-style claims that Jews are satanic.
Guideline 5 (Holocaust denial/minimization) and the general bar on defaming Jews as a collective.
Defamatory, denialist content about Jews; no Israel dimension.
Not about Israel.
Who called it antisemitic
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver; Nets owner Joe Tsai; the ADL.
The defense
Initially defiant (“I meant no harm”), then an Instagram apology to “Jewish families and communities that are hurt.”
Outcome
Suspended 8 games without pay; reinstatement was conditioned on apology, training, and meetings with Jewish community leaders.
In their words
Kyrie Irving made a reckless decision to post a link to a film containing deeply offensive antisemitic material. … I am disappointed that he has not offered an unqualified apology and more specifically denounced the vile and harmful content contained in the film he chose to publicize.
I’m disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-semitic disinformation. … as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity or religion. This is bigger than basketball.
I am an OMNIST and I meant no disrespect to anyone’s religious beliefs. The ‘Anti-Semitic’ label that is being pushed on me is not justified.
To All Jewish families and Communities that are hurt and affected from my post, I am deeply sorry to have caused you pain, and I apologize.
The verdicts above are how each framework would most likely treat this case — illustrative guidance, not official rulings. The 3D test applies only to Israel-related cases, so it reads “N/A” elsewhere. See the Definition tab for each framework’s full text. Inclusion is documentation, not a finding.