Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), announced a significant policy change on Friday, targeting the use of specific antisemitic phrases on the platform, as advertisers leave in droves after he told an anti-Semite on the app that he was speaking “the actual truth.”
Musk declared that terms like “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea” are euphemisms that “necessarily imply genocide,” warning that their use could lead to suspension on X. These phrases have been commonly associated with the Free Palestine movement, and are understood to be antisemitic and eliminationist rhetoric, implying the destruction of the Jewish state and its people. Hamas has previously adopted “from the river to the sea” as a slogan.
Musk, who has described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” made the move following a series of controversial incidents on the platform, including Musk’s endorsement of a conspiracy theory perceived as antisemitic, which led to condemnation from the White House and a withdrawal of major advertisers like Apple, Disney, Lionsgate, and IBM from X.
Despite Musk’s claim to be combating antisemitism, there have been ongoing reports of sponsored content on X appearing alongside Nazi and white nationalist material. The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish nonprofit, briefly paused but then resumed ad spending on X after a feud with Musk.
Musk’s latest policy stance on the phrases “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea” appears to be an obvious attempt to address the fallout from his engagement in far-right conspiracies about Jewish people.
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Once again the leftist “jew” spent out of shape about this because they are the ones whom he meant. They are the ones for open borders. They are the ones for lawlessness. And then something hits them when they have a sudden epiphany that maybe maybe maybe they’re wrong. And then, as soon as that situation comes down they go back to their stupidity.
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He didn’t endorse it. Stop taking direct feeds from AP. He upset the liberal Jews and they used the antisemitism card.
In what world is that antisemitism? Liberal Jews have been going off for decades about how they want America to be a minority filled country with Whites left behind and ignored for the benefit of a less antisemitic country.
Which didn’t work, as we see, as most of the browns are actually extremely antisemitic also.
Musk spends too much time clarifying what he meant, in this case and others. I don’t trust the guy. I don’t use X, or Twitter, partly because I don’t know how.
Oh, please. Why are you parroting the ADL’s leftist propaganda? Musk never endorsed anything antisemitic, and he is not backtracking. What Musk wrote is completely true and he stands by it, and it is not at all antisemitic. It is the TRUTH that many Jewish communities, including the ADL, have been pushing the neo-Marxist poison that is now coming back and biting us in the behind, to mix a metaphor, and then express surprise that it’s their turn at the guillotine. It’s not antisemitic, it’s what we have all seen with our own eyes.
And it’s equally true that “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea” are euphemisms for “kill all the Jews”, and he’s always said that that sort of thing is not welcome on his platform.
Such a misleading title. What Musk said was correct, namely that liberal jews are pro immigration etc. Which results in many middle eastern anti semites entering the US. This is positively a which hunt and absolutely political. Shame on ywn for this headline.
Either you’re an Anti-Semite or you’re not. You can’t flip flop every day. Musk seems to be an Anti-Semite but he likes money more. This he remains an Anti-Semite!
Stupid article. Jews have enough real enemies.