The Israeli prime minister has defended the billionaire amid backlash over his obvious Nazi salute at Inauguration occasion
Elon Musk has thanked Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for defending him amid a rising backlash over the billionaire’s controversial hand gesture at a supporters’ rally in Washington on the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Musk was compelled to disclaim allegations that the straight-arm gesture he made whereas addressing Trump supporters on the Capital One Enviornment on Monday, resembled a Nazi salute. He has dismissed the accusations as a “soiled trick” by his critics, saying they need to discover higher methods of attacking than calling each opponent “Hitler.”
On Thursday, Musk took to his social media platform X, writing that “the novel leftists are actually upset that they needed to take trip of their busy day praising Hamas to name me a Nazi.”
In a present of assist, Netanyahu posted on X, calling Musk “a fantastic good friend of Israel” who’s being “falsely smeared.”
He mentioned that Musk visited Israel after the October 7 assault by Hamas and has since “repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s proper to defend itself…”
Musk reposted Netanyahu’s assertion, thanking him for his assist.
The businessman traveled to Israel in November 2023 amid accusations of facilitating threats towards Jews and xenophobia on his social media platform. On the time, he was additionally being accused of personally selling an anti-Semitic trope after he mentioned he agreed with an X person who instructed that Jewish folks have been stoking “hatred towards whites.”
Musk has denied the allegations, threatening suspension on his X platform for anybody advocating “for the genocide of any group.”
Throughout his go to, Musk met with Netanyahu and the nation’s president Isaac Herzog. Netanyahu took Musk to tour Kfar Aza, the kibbutz in southern Israel struck by Hamas throughout its October 7 incursion, and confirmed the customer the 44-minute movie Israel had put collectively to showcase the Palestinian group’s alleged atrocities.
In a press convention after assembly Netanyahu, Musk declared that Israel had “no selection” however to destroy Hamas, calling the Palestinian militant group a “toxic regime.” In the same briefing at Auschwitz, which the billionaire visited in January 2024, Musk declared that he had been “frankly naive” concerning the alleged rise of anti-Semitism within the West.
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