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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Nov 8, 2022, 04:40 PM Nov 2022

(Jewish Group) The Dangerous Mainstreaming of Kanye West and Kyrie Irving's Brand of Antisemitism

The Kanye and Kyrie show is one K short of a racist trifecta, but not for lack of contenders.

Bishop Talbert Swan, president of the Greater Springfield (Massachusetts) chapter of the NAACP and a prelate of the Church of God in Christ—the largest Holiness-Pentecostal denomination, whose membership is mostly Black American—has been furiously defending the beleaguered celebrities, who recently staged spectacular displays of financial self-harm by spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories in interviews and on social media.

“Nothing debunks the stereotype,” Swan snarked in a tweet last week, “of having an inordinate level of influence in American sports and entertainment like stripping $1 billion from a Black entertainer and getting a Black athlete suspended while forcing him to apologize and pay half $1 million for offending you.”

It’s true that Jews have had the temerity to be offended.

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