Summary
Elon Musk escalated controversy over accusations that his salute at a Trump rally resembled a “Sieg heil” by posting Nazi-related jokes on X, referencing figures like Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) initially defended Musk, urging “a bit of grace” and “benefit of the doubt,” but later condemned his Holocaust-related jokes as offensive.
Conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also defended Musk.
Critics highlighted Musk’s history of promoting far-right conspiracy theories and enabling neo-Nazi content on X, raising concerns about increasing offensive rhetoric on the platform.
Someone hasn’t been paying attention to what they’ve been saying every time someone criticized the atrocities of Israeli governments for the past 75 years…
The reason why they bent over backwards to defend him at first is the same reason why they called him “a friend to Jews”: because of his positive relations with their favorite fascist apartheid regime.