Elon Musk visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau World War II Nazi German death camp on Monday, after the billionaire faced criticism for subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory and allowing hate messages on his social media platform, X. He was joined by Orthodox Jewish conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
The private visit was apparently in response to calls from some Jewish religious leaders for Musk to see with his own eyes the most symbolic site of the horrors of the Holocaust.
Musk was photographed visiting the Birkenau site. Birkenau is an area near Oswiecim, in southern Poland, fenced off with barbed wire, where wooden barracks that were simple shelters for the inmates and the ruins of a gas chamber can be found and where a monument to the victims stands. International ceremonies are held there each year.
Musk had been expected to make the visit on Tuesday, together with political figures attending a conference of the European Jewish Association on the rise of antisemitism.
Later Monday, Musk was to discuss antisemitism online as part of a conference by the European Jewish Association held in Krakow ahead of the Jan. 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which takes place on the anniversary of the camp’s 1945 liberation.
Musk sparked outcry in November with his own tweets responding to a user who accused Jews of hating white people and professing indifference to antisemitism. “You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in a reply.
After advertisers starting pulling out of X, Musk said the post was the “dumbest” he had ever written.
(AP)
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While Democrat Jews double down on supporting their Palestinian friendly party
Musk came to Israel and saw with his own eyes the damage the harm……for this to occur and once again show this dimwit our lives…is insane, this man is reckless and find the reason Hashem made him wealthy before bedding this man and finding a trap
Imagine yey going there or even Ismail Aniah Or Mohammad Deff it will be a נס
Nothing but a PR stunt. Why do some people think they have to bend over backwards to try to change an obvious anti Semite’s mind?
Why can’t people write coherent messages?!
Justasec; the bigger question is why does YWN keep posting these incoherent rants.
Musk sparked outcry in November with his own tweets responding to a user who accused Jews of hating white people and professing indifference to antisemitism. “You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in a reply.
More AP lies. The tweet that Musk agreed with said “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them”. This is perfectly true, especially if you allow “communities” to be replaced with “organizations”.
Musk replied that it was true, thinking mostly about the ADL, which is not a community, but from his perspective that’s not an important distinction. The ADL is indeed guilty of exactly what this person said. And so have many other Jewish organizations that are now complaining when their own rhetoric is now turned on the Jews. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; it’s fair enough for a nochri to see this double standard and object.
It’s also true that the ADL and other Jewish organizations have been actively supporting the flooding of the USA and Europe by millions of hostile infiltrators, so they’re in no position to complain about the same thing happening to Israel.