Musk concurred with a tweet that professed Jewish people had been driving 'dialectical hostility' against whites, and later censured the Anti-Defamation League. "Prominent anti-Semites are rejoicing what they view as Musk's total transformation to out and out articulations of Jew disdain," said one loathe wrongdoings master. "At the point when we saw comparable rants from Ye a year ago October, anti-Jewish despise violations hopped across the nation," Musk drives a half dozen organizations that together utilize around 150,000 individuals around the globe, including SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Co., Neuralink, X Corp and his most recent endeavor, xAI.
Tesla, SpaceX, and X Corp. leader Elon Musk generated much criticism online on Wednesday after he posted a series of messages that could be deemed bigoted. Musk began by responding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory; he then went on to accuse "Jewish communities," the non-profit Anti-Defamation League, and minorities of having "anti-white" views, without giving any proof to back his claims. As the world's wealthiest person with a net worth of roughly $225 billion, Musk heads several business ventures with a collective employee base of 150,000 across the globe.
Musk's reply to a tweet claiming Jewish people "have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them" was met with much scrutiny. Yair Rosenberg of The Atlantic declared, "This exchange would have languished in obscurity had Musk not replied to this bigoted bromide." In response to Musk's tweet, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter), "#NeverIsNow." The Jewish-led non-profit is dedicated to fighting antisemitic incidents, racist discrimination, and hate crimes in the U.S. Musk then proceeded to directly target the ADL, unsubstantiatedly saying it "unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel", and that it "cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat."
In spite of the pushback Musk received, he continued to stand by his accusing remarks, tweeting that he was "deeply offended" by the ADL's messaging and that of "any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind". His statement provoked a response from Whistle Stop Capital's Meredith Benton, who said this could have implications for Musk's business interests, and from Professor Emeritus Brian Levin from California State University, San Bernardino, who warned that these types of remarks "amplifying neo-Nazi type Jew hatred" could lead to further anti-semitism.
CNBC reached out to Musk and X Corp. for comments but received no comment except an apparent auto-response message that said, "Busy now, please check back later." The ADL declined to offer further comment.
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