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The CEO of anti-de-de-de-de-de-de-on Thursday lambasted Elon Musk for a series of jokes linked to the holocaust which he published on X, the social media platform he owns, only a few days after the organization non -profit defended a “clumsy gesture” that he made and that others have said. looks a lot like a Nazi salute.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, in the Capitol Onena in Washington, DC, January 20, 2025.
Key facts
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, responded to a series of word games posted by Musk evoking the names of famous members of the Nazi party Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, by tweeting to the billionaire, ” Holocaust is not a joke “.
“The holocaust was a particularly perverse event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to take it lightly,” said Greenblatt.
The Official ADL account has taken hold of Greenblatt’s message, saying that such jokes “trivialize the holocaust” and “only serve minimizing the evil and the inhumanity of Nazi crimes, to denigrate the suffering of victims and survivors and insulting the memory of the six million Jews ”. murdered during the Shoah.
The refutations addressed to Musk, which was active on Twitter all week to defend themselves against those who accused him of having made a salvation “Sieg Heil” while he was on stage during an inauguration event President Donald Trump on Monday, contrast with the organization. defend it after the incident.
After Musk touched the left side of his chest with his right hand and held out his arm up, repeating the movement with the crowd behind him, the ADL defended Musk, affirming in a message X that he had done An “clumsy gesture in a moment of enthusiasm”. Not a Nazi salute “, and urging” all the parts “to” give themselves a little grace “.
Neither Greenblatt nor the ADL specified if they thought about their initial declaration.
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Crucial quote
“I bet you made Nazis to come 😂,” Musk posted at the end of his joke series on Thursday.
Surprisingly
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Musk Thursday, calling him “great friend of Israel”. Netanyahu said that he had been “falsely defamed” following the incident, and praised Musk as someone who “supported Israel for the right to defend himself on several occasions against the genocidal terrorists and the regimes seeking to destroy the one and only Jewish state ”.
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Musk was on stage at Capitol One Arena in Washington when he made this hand gesture, which, according to many, recalls a salvation of “Sieg Heil”. Salvation was used as greeting in Nazi Germany and its use is illegal in Germany and Austria, it can also be prosecuted for hate speech in certain other European countries. This decision sparked a storm on social networks, those who condemn him for having used this gesture and others accusing his attackers of having exaggerated the gesture of excitement of several foreign officials and Democratic members. members of the Congress, including representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., accused Musk of having knowingly made a Nazi salute, while others, like the journalist Bataa Ungar-Sargon, said that this decision seemed Being “a spray man throwing his heart with exuberance”. to the crowd “, accusing criticism of” inventing indignation “.
Tangent
This is not the first time that Musk has been accused of anti -Semitism. In November 2023, he was arrested for having publicly supported a popular anti -Semitic conspiracy theory among white supremacists: according to which Jewish communities pushed “hatred against whites”. Musk replied That a user of X “said the true truth” after having affirmed that “the Jewish communities pushed the exact type of dialectical hatred against the whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them”. The message also included anti-immigrant feelings. Biden’s White House condemned his support, calling him “promotion of anti -Semitic and racist hatred”, although Musk later denied being anti -Semitic and declared that his comments did not refer to all the Jews but to groups like ADL and other “Jewish communities” not specified. This publication brought several major brands, including Disney and IBM, to stop advertising on the platform. A few weeks later, Musk went to Israel, where he spoke with senior leaders, including Netanyahu, and visited a Kibbutz attacked by Hamas activists. In January 2024, Musk went to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and admitted to having been “naive” as to the extent of anti-Semitism. He said he had seen “almost no anti -Semitism” in his own life and said he was “Jewish by association”. I am fundamentally Jewish.
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