Elon Musk under fire for supporting Palestine

The globally recognized American tech entrepreneur who owns the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, alongside Space X and Tesla, is being criticized for endorsing credible news linked to Israel amid its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip that began on October 7.

Musk came under fire for agreeing with a post that claimed Jewish people were pushing “hatred against whites.”

The initial tweet posted by @breakingbaht on November 15 read, “Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

Musk responded the same evening, “You have said the actual truth.” In another reply, he wrote, “I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.” Musk has feuded with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) before, threatening to sue over its accounting of hate speech on his social media network. 

The ADL has been engaged in verbal attacks on Musk in recent weeks on social media.

The ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, decried Musk’s endorsement of the anti-Semitic conspiracy. He wrote, “At a time when antisemitism is exploding in America and surging around the world, it is indisputably dangerous to use one’s influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories. #NeverIsNow.”

Musk continued the thread on Thursday morning by approving an X post by a Dutch conservative commentator reading, “Everyone is allowed to be proud of their race, except for white people, because we’ve been brainwashed into believing that our history was some how ‘worse’ than other races. This false narrative must die.”

Musk wrote, “Yeah, this is super messed up. Time for this nonsense to end and shame ANYONE who perpetuates these lies!”

Musk’s response evoked immediate and strong backlash, some condemning him for his “white supremacist conspiracy theory” while some showed anti-Semitic support for him.

Meanwhile, the ADL is said to be working in a coordinated manner with dozens of Zionist groups against Musk.

In their attacks on Musk, the ADL and ally organizations claim the billionaire is doing nothing to prevent the “epidemic of hate speech” on his platform.

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