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Michèle Taylor, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council, at a hearing in Geneva on Aug. 11. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — American officials blasted a high-ranking United Nations diplomat in charge of monitoring the tense situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories, arguing that posts she made about the conflict there disqualified her from being an objective broker. The offending posts were made in 2014 by Francesca Albanese, an unabashed… Source link

Kyrie Irving apologized Thursday for posting a documentary with antisemitic conspiracy theories and falsehoods on Twitter, a few hours after he was suspended five games without pay by the Brooklyn Nets. The apology, published on Instagram, came a little more than a week after the Nets star posted the offensive tweet, which has since been deleted. Irving conceded the video “contained some false anti-Semitic statements, narratives, and languages that were untrue and offensive to the Jewish… Source link

The Brooklyn Nets have suspended Kyrie Irving five games without pay, the team announced Thursday, after a turbulent week in which the All-Star posted a link to an antisemitic video on Twitter and declined to apologize. After reportedly spending the last several days trying to help Irving understand the film contained “deeply disturbing antisemitic hate,” the Nets said they were “dismayed” Irving had failed to say he holds no antisemitic beliefs when asked on Thursday and such a failure made… Source link

The Brooklyn Nets have suspended Kyrie Irving five games without pay, the team announced Thursday, after a turbulent week in which the All-Star posted a link to an antisemitic video on Twitter and declined to apologize. After reportedly spending the last several days trying to help Irving understand the film contained “deeply disturbing antisemitic hate,” the Nets said they were “dismayed” Irving had failed to say he holds no antisemitic beliefs when asked on Thursday and such a failure made… Source link

Florida and Georgia issued a joint statement on Sunday morning condemning an antisemitic message that was projected onto the exterior of TIAA Bank Field after the Bulldogs’ 42-20 win over the Gators. The message positively referenced Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks earlier this month. The statement from the school not only denounced what was projected onto the stadium but “other antisemitic messages” in the city of Jacksonville. “We strongly condemn the antisemitic hate speech… Source link

Kyrie Irving took to Twitter once again Saturday morning, this time to address a previous offensive tweet. It was still a topic of conversation by the end of the Brooklyn Nets‘ game that day. Irving garnered significant backlash Thursday when he shared a link to a documentary called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” based on a book of the same name by Ronald Dalton Jr. Both the book and movie have been criticized for their antisemitic message. “I am an OMNIST and I meant no… Source link

Kyrie Irving‘s latest venture into conspiracy theories and controversy has drawn condemnation from Brooklyn Nets team owner Joe Tsai and his own team for its clear antisemitism. On Thursday, the Nets point guard tweeted out a link to a documentary called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” based on a book of the same name by Ronald Dalton Jr. As Rolling Stone explains it, the documentary puts forward “ideas in line with more extreme factions of the Black Hebrew Israelites, which have… Source link

Kanye West, who now is legally known as Ye, is buying conservative social media company Parler, a move following Instagram and Twitter’s decisions to suspend the rapper’s accounts over a series of widely condemned antisemitic posts. In an interview during Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit on Monday, Former Trump adviser Gary Cohn described Ye’s recent offensive posts as “just unacceptable.” “I’ll say the same thing about Kanye West’s remarks as I said to the President of the… Source link

Google parted ways with a cloud services executive after he published a LinkedIn manifesto about Israeli-Palestinian relations and his vehemently antisemitic past. CNBC reports that Google faced internal criticism over Amr Awadallah, VP of developer relations at Google Cloud. While Awadallah said he published the piece to promote tolerance and understanding, employees objected to how Awadallah described Jews and expressed concerns about his past beliefs. Awadallah began the June 13th post… Source link

Google removed a senior member of its diversity team over anti-Semitic remarks in a 2007 blog post, marking the second time in a month that a big tech company has been forced to make a staffing change in the wake of public outcry over an executive’s previous writing. The subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.  GOOGL, -0.97%   GOOG, -0.69% hired Kamau Bobb in 2018 as global lead of diversity strategy and research, a decade after he… Source link