The Anti-Defamation League slammed Elon Musk after he posted a collection of Nazi-related puns on X when defending his gesture at an inauguration rally for President Trump that many claimed was a Nazi salute.
The ADL, a New York-based group preventing antisemitism, mentioned Musk had gone too far when attempting to mock these focusing on him over the salute, which the group mentioned was an “awkward gesture” relatively than a Sieg Heil.
Following the backlash on-line, Musk went on a rant Thursday morning posting a number of inappropriate puns referencing high Nazi officers and Holocaust architects, together with Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler.
“Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” Musk wrote on X. “Some individuals will Goebbels something down!
“Cease Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!” he added. “Guess you probably did nazi that coming.”
Musks’ feedback have been flagged by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who condemned the statements on the Tesla CEO’s X platform.
“We’ve mentioned it lots of of occasions earlier than and we are going to say it once more: the Holocaust was a singularly evil occasion, and it’s inappropriate and offensive to make mild of it,” Greenblatt wrote.
“@elonmusk, the Holocaust is just not a joke.”
The condemnation was instantly adopted by the ADL’s major X account, which echoed the criticism towards Musk.
“Making inappropriate and extremely offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust solely serve to reduce the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the struggling of each victims and survivors and insult the reminiscence of the six million Jews murdered within the Shoah,” the group wrote in an announcement.
Musk final earned the ire of the ADL in November 2023 when he agreed with a who claimed that Jewish communities push “hatred towards whites that they declare to need individuals to cease utilizing towards them.”
The ADL’s criticism of Musk comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the billionaire was being “falsely smeared” over a viral video of his repeated salute at President Trump’s inauguration rally.
The ADL had additionally defended Musk’s salute, saying too many individuals “are on edge” following Trump’s return to the White Home on Monday.
“Evidently [Musk] made a clumsy gesture in a second of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the antisemitism watchdog wrote on X.
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