>“If your ancestors were brought to America, or any other part of the world by slave ship, you are from the ancient tribe of the Hebrew Israelites,” Stoudemire said in a February YouTube video.
>“This is black history,” said Stoudemire, “this is true black history.”
>Stoudemire’s wife reportedly has family connections to the African Hebrew Israelites of Dimona, commonly known as the Black Hebrews. He even executive produced a 2014 documentary about that high-profile Hebrew Israelite group in Dimona, called “The Village of Peace.”
>But Stoudemire’s chief Hebrew Israelite affiliation is with Israel of God, a Chicago-based Messianic Hebrew Israelite group with 23 outposts accross the country (and one in Zimbabwe). The group’s founder and leader Pastor Henry Buie baptized Stoudemire, along with his wife and mother, in 2013.
>“He was transformed by it,” said Buie, speaking from the organization’s headquarters. “He is really, really trying to keep the law”
>According to Buie, Stoudemire discovered one of the Israelite churches in Memphis through a friend of his agent’s in 2013. “One of his boyhood friends introduced him to my branch [in Memphis], he went, and it grabbed him.”
>in recent years Stoudemire has amplified his Hebrew Israelite messaging on social media. In a video from 2016, shared widely online, Stoudemire said the African American community was being attacked spiritually and psychologically.
>“We are suffering from a serious identity crisis,” he said. “Who are we, people?”
>Stoudemire then quoted Deuteronomy 28, an important chapter for Hebrew Israelites of all stripes, and is read as proof that African Americans are descended from the Israelites of the bible but were “scattered among all people” and made to “serve other gods.
>In another Instagram post, Stoudemire wrote: “Our forefathers (Hebrews) started in Jerusalem.” The post was tagged #NoConvert and #IWasRaisedThisWay. “I’m not Jew-ish,” Stoudemire wrote in another post.
>Stoudemire also posted an image of himself on Instagram, wearing a piece of jewelry modeled on the the priestly Israelite breastplate, which was given to him as a wedding gift from his wife.
>“One thing this represents is world peace,” Stoudemire explained earlier to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “That means to have shalom, to have peace among all people. That’s the proper way to live. It keeps you humble. It represents the 12 tribes. We’re all related.”
NBA Star Amar’e Stoudemire Is Moving to Israel — Because He’s a Hebrew Israelite
>Amar’e Stoudemire completes his conversion to Judaism. Former NBA star announces end of two-year journey to join the Tribe, takes on Hebrew name ‘Yahoshafat Ben Avraham’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/amare-stoudemire-completes-his-conversion-to-judaism/amp/
>Stoudemire was raised Baptist.[88] Through his mother, he associated with the Black Hebrew Israelites.[2][89][90] In a 2010 interview, he said, “I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.”[2] Asked if there was a chance he was Jewish, he said “I think through history, I think we all are.”[2] He visited Israel that year, saying he intended “to get a better understanding of [his] heritage.”[91][92][2] He returned for the 2013 Maccabiah Games as assistant coach of the Canadian basketball team;[93] while there he met with Israeli president Shimon Peres, who urged him to join the Israel national basketball team.[94] In April 2018, he reportedly began converting to Judaism.[95] In January 2019, he was granted residency in Israel.[96] In March 2019, he received Israeli citizenship, and adopted the name Yahoshafat Ben Avraham.[97] He formally converted to Judaism with a Rabbinical court on August 26, 2020.[97]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar’e_Stoudemire
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He also said kyrie should apologize…….
You can accept the fact that we all likely come from that same area and if you follow any Judeo-Christian religion it comes from the hebrews, while also accepting that the modern day population of Jews has nothing to do with that.
Kyrie is too deep in his shit to recognize the difference, he wants to hate.
A lot of people who start out as members of the Nation of Islam also covert to Sunni
So i knew amare was jewish. But at first he was like black Israelite jew? And now hes like i dont want to say normal jewish but normal jewish?
If so doesnt that seem unlikely since black israelite jews think white jews are imposters
I think a former American black Jewish ran for the Israeli parliament last week but I’m not sure she won
There have been Ethiopian Jews in Israeli parliament..