Elon Musk visits Israel after criticism for endorsing antisemitic post
- Billionaire Elon Musk toured a kibbutz attacked by Hamas militants and held talks with Israel’s top leaders
- Musk has been criticised over what critics say is a proliferation of hate speech on his X platform
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Elon Musk visits Israel to meet PM Netanyahu amid antisemitism claims
Elon Musk, the social media mogul assailed for his endorsement of an anti-Jewish post, toured the site of the Hamas assault on Israel on Monday and declared his commitment to do whatever was necessary to stop the spread of hatred.
Musk, the owner of the X platform, Tesla and SpaceX, also watched footage assembled from Hamas bodycams, CCTV and other sources of the October 7 Hamas killing spree in which Israel says 240 people were taken captive back to Gaza.
As well as meeting families of some of the hostages, he had a live online chat with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on X Spaces. Early on Monday, Musk posted on X: “Actions speak louder than words”.
On November 15, Musk had agreed with a post on X that falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user who referenced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory was speaking “the actual truth”.
The theory holds that Jewish people and leftists are engineering the ethnic and cultural replacement of white populations with non-white immigrants that will lead to a “white genocide”.