Last Updated on November 21, 2023
X owner and richest man alive, Elon Musk, agreed with an alleged antisemitic social media post claiming that whites are experiencing racism at the hands of certain Jewish populations.
The establishment class assembled its different factions to condemn Musk. Pundits, corporate media outlets and now the White House have publicly slammed the billionaire’s digital endorsement, reported The Hill.
“It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” said White House spokesman Andrew Bates in a presser.
To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting "Hitler was right":
You got something you want to say? Why dont you say it to our faces… pic.twitter.com/WGkwTrXyTF
— Charles Weber (@CWBOCA) November 15, 2023
The original post on X included a propaganda video by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with the comments, “To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting ‘Hitler was right’: You got something you want to say?”
One user responded to the viral post:
Okay. Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest [expletive] now about Western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much. You want truth said to your face, there it is.
You have said the actual truth
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2023
Musk, to that last post, stated, “You have said the actual truth.” He followed up by clarifying that he was addressing the ADL:
The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat. It is not right and needs to stop.
The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.
This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.
It is not right and needs to stop.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2023
The Hill claimed that Musk “appeared to endorse false conspiracy theories that Jews want to flood the country with minorities.” However, Jewish NGOs, like the ADL or HIAS, tend to be progressive and advocate for so-called “open borders.”
The outlet did not comment on the X-user’s post about antiwhitism, but asserted that the ADL is simply a “group that advocates against antisemitic and hate speech.”
Musk has been at odds with the ADL after being a target of several of the Jewish nonprofit’s ad-boycott campaigns. One was only a few months ago, and another was in November 2022 when Musk reinstated former President Donald Trump. CNN reported the boycotts led to a “massive drop in revenue,” according to Musk.
Back in September, the #BanTheADL rocked the social media platform as nationalists and free-speech absolutists called upon Musk to ban the ADL from X.
The Anti-Defamation League has long been viewed as censorious or the “cancel culture” NGO. As for its antiwhite sentiment, it isn’t hard to see as it still continues to deny the genocide of whites in South Africa.
In 2017, Senior Research Fellow at the ADL’s Center of Extremism Mark Pitcavage said the killings are “racist obsession” and a “white supremacist claim.” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt even defended the “Kill the Boer” chant and stated they were all “baseless claims of ‘white genocide’ … made by right-wing extremists in the US, particularly white supremacists …”
South Africa’s EFF leader Julius Malema chanting “Shoot to kill, kill the Boer, kill the farmer” to nearly 100,000 cheers at FNB Stadium.
Highly doubt any sitting US rep will condemn this—certainly not the Biden administration—but @elonmusk has.pic.twitter.com/nw7GghJZKG
— Brian J. Pfail (@brian_pfail) July 31, 2023
#BanTheADL garnered so much support with over 150,000 posts, causing the ADL’s top researcher, Pitcavage, to lock his account and condemn the hashtag as organized by “white supremacists.”
The go-to for the ADL has always been accusatory remarks of “antisemitism” or “white supremacy.” After Musk announced his lawsuit against the nonprofit, Greenblatt told CNN he was “deeply worried about the antisemitism affecting American Jews.”
For Musk’s recent pushback, he has lost several big advertisers from Apple, Comcast, IBM, Warner Brothers, Paramount Global, Disney to Lionsgate, according to the Washington Examiner. Allegedly far-left nonprofit Media Matters for America reported several of these corporations appeared next to “Nazi” content while on the X platform.
The Hill reported Musk would file a suit against Media Matters, calling the move a “fraudulent attack” against X and free speech.