Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to the defense of Tesla CEO Elon Musk as Democrats accuse him of performing a Nazi salute during a public event celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President of the United States.
Netanyahu rejected the accusations against Musk, calling them a “false smear.”
“Elon is a great friend of Israel,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre, in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state. I thank him for this.”
Musk responded to Netanyahu’s support with a brief “thank you” on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The controversy arose on Monday during an event at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., where Musk addressed a crowd of Trump supporters. After thanking the audience for what he described as a pivotal moment for human civilization, Musk made a series of gestures that Democrats dishonestly claimed resembled a Nazi salute. The sequence included slapping his hand on his chest and extending his arm at an angle with his fingers together.
Responding to the backlash, Musk dismissed the accusations, saying, “The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi.”
Musk’s Wikipedia page was even updated to describe his gesture as a “Nazi” or “fascist” salute. Musk lashed out at Wikipedia, accusing the platform of being biased, and urged his supporters to “defund Wikipedia until balance is restored.”
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales pushed back against Musk’s claims, stating, “I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale. I hope his campaign to defund us results in lots of donations from people who care about the truth. If Elon wanted to help, he’d be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage.”
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The Democrat party with Jamal, Ilhan and their cohorts, the Democrat party of whovfar too many walked out when Netanyahu pationately spoke at a joint session of Congress about the war, the Democrat party who withheld necessary equipment from America’s only ally in the middle east during their war for survival, the Democrat party who insists Israel deliver aid and sustain their enemy during war, the Democratparty who alligns with those accusingIsraelof genocide, that Democratparty who won’tstand up for Israelat the UNethical UNecessary UN: that Democrat party will now label and decide who is antisemitic. I got it!
You have to realize that they consider netanyahu to be a nazi too
The idiots attacking Musk are the people who look for antisemitism under every rock, when it comes to the right. But when it comes to the left they dismiss real antisemitism. They are the same dopes who believe that any criticism of Kapo George Soros is antisemitic. And they will defend with their lives real Democrat anti-Semites such as Al “diamond merchants” Sharpton and Jesse “hymietown” Jackson.
I’m not sure about Elon…no opinion here.
I’m just gonna say that supporting the zionist state is not a contradiction to being a Nazi. They also supported the idea.
If annihilating, persucuting, or fleecing Jewish people is your goal, it is much more practical to do so by having them concentrated in Israel. So being an enemy of the Jews and a supporter of the state of Israel is really no contradiction.
Similarly, Bibi said the greatest friends of Israel are the evangelicals (+80 million of
them) and they believe that the Jewish people should either accept the Cheesy Crust 2.0 or else die.
As said, this is a general statement, verifiable about ideologies and groups. But I don’t propose to name names.
Just bear in mind.