Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a message of support Thursday for Elon Musk after the world’s richest man was accused of making a Nazi salute.
Musk “is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre… [and] has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”
Musk later thanked Netanyahu.
Since nazis hate jews by definition and assuming Netanyahu’s statements are true, Musk is not a nazi.
Are you implying that Netanyahu speaks for all Jews? Israel and Zionism do not equal Judaism and Netanyahu definitely doesn’t.
Nah, Nazis hated Jews just because they needed to hate someone to justify their own existence but they’ll switch to any other easy scapegoats and work with whoever they need to hold on to power
People also forget that nazis killed 5 millions non jews. Not to say that there was no systematic killing of jews from being jewish and not to say thst a final solution wasn’t planned for jews
In terms of practicality Nazi Germany Nazis hated Jews bcs that was already the style at the time (it’s easier to use & inflate current public arguments than to seed completely new ones), they just added German efficiently into it’s propaganda & weaponisation.
for additional context:
the anti-jewish sentiment in europe goes back to the early middle-ages, and only fell out of fashion (mostly, until recently) after the holocaust and the de-nazification programs in austria/germany.
same goes for anti-roma/sinti racism and anti-black racism; very old concepts, always convenient tragets for the far-right, since the sentiments are difficult to completely eradicate and easily spread by mass media.
That’s not the definition, that’s an association.
It’s like saying that the definition of an American is someone who hates tea. That’s a much older association (and the comparison is tongue-in-cheek), but this kind of thing isn’t how definitions work.
I’ve got really bad news for you about how Musk feels about Jewish people.
Like why even give him the benefit of the doubt, you can just look up all the antisemitic shit he’s tweeted and retweeted.