Former Knicks and Suns star Amar’e Stoudemire ripped politicians and Black Live Matter supporters who have been silent following Hamas’ attack on Israel.
Stoudemire posted an expletive-filled rant on his Instagram page Sunday, per Fox News, which targeted those who have not denounced Hamas after it launched the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years over the weekend.
Israel has since declared war on Hamas.
“I woke up, man, this morning with some disturbing news out of Israel – that Hamas kidnapping children, putting them in cages, killing women, killing the elderly. That’s some coward s–t. That’s cowardly,” Stoudemire said. “And for all y’all Black Lives Matter (supporters) who ain’t saying nothing, ‘Well let me figure out exactly what’s happening before I say anything,’ — f–k you.
“Figure out what? It ain’t never been cool to kidnap kids and put them in cages. Ain’t never been cool to kill women and elderly. Never been, no matter where you from, what you represent, what tribe you from, it don’t matter. It ain’t never been no cool thing. That ain’t never been nothing nobody supported. And then you go and hide and put the kids in front of you as a barricade. That’s some coward s–t.”
Warning: Graphic language
Stoudemire, who played for the Knicks from 2010-15, received Israeli citizenship in March 2019 and completed his conversion to Judaism in 2020, according to The Times of Israel.
He signed a two-year contract with Hapoel Jerusalem in 2016, before joining Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2020.
Israel clearly means a lot to Stoudemire.
Israel-Hamas war: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.
2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli towns.
Terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — reported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.
“All you politicians who have something to say on the contrary – I see you. F–k you. All you Black Lives Matter people who always have something to say and always supported everything else and you quiet now – f–k you too,” Stoudemire said. “Only place in the world where I can go and study Torah and eat Kosher food. Only place in the world. Some coward s–t, dog, and all y’all support it — f–k, you.
“On my mama, we don’t respect none of y’all for that. Peace.”
