Elon Musk at Auschwitz (European Jewish Association)
Elon Musk is really serious about proving to the world that he is not an anti-Semite, or anti-Israel. To that end, the controversial owner of Twitter and founder of electric car company Tesla made a visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and took part in a symposium in Krakow held by the European Jewish Association.
This was just the latest stop in Elon Musk’s “I am not a bad guy” tour. In November he visited Israel where he toured the towns destroyed in the October 7 Hamas massacre, met with Israeli leaders and with the families of people still held hostage in Gaza.
Elon Musk was accompanied on his trip there by right-wing political commentator Ben Shapiro. Shapiro is kind of like the Jewish Al Sharpton. He has a fanatic following because of his pro-Israel positions and passionate political rhetoric. So, if a person needs to prove he is not ant-Israel or an anti-Semite then having Ben Shapiro at his side can really help to improve his image.
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About how the trip to Auschwitz affected him Elon Musk said, “It hits you much more in the heart when you see it in person,” the “it” being the camp itself.
“I think it will take a few days to sink in, frankly,” he added.
Fortunately, Elon Musk has a lot of Jewish friends, as he explained.
“It’s not like I have one Jewish friend,” Musk said. “Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish.”
And so, Elon Musk feels he is “like Jewish by association” and that he is “aspirationally Jewish,” whatever that means.
Elon Musk used the massacre of more than one million at Auschwitz alone as a promotion for Twitter saying, “If there would have been social media [during the Holocaust], it would have been impossible to hide.”
And fortunately for everyone there must be little or no anti-Semitism anymore because, as he explained, “in the circles I move in, I see no antisemitism.”
Elon Musk has been widely criticized for allowing the proliferation of anti-Semitic posts, as well as outright lies about Israel during the ongoing war in Gaza, on his Twitter social media platform. Musk has argued that he is concerned with freedom of speech so he does not wish to censor the posts on Twitter. But his critics have argued that as the operator of the world’s most used messaging platform through which countless people around the world receive news updates, he has a moral obligation to do something about its use for hate speech.
And Elon Musk has himself agreed with anti-Semitic posts on Twitter.
One such post read, “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 shit 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.”
To that Elon Musk responded, “You have said the actual truth.”
