Elon Musk told a rally the German far-right AfD party, just before Holocaust Remembrance Day, that Germany should get over "past guilt."
The ADL’s defense of Elon Musk — after his hand gesture resembling a Nazi salute — outraged many in the Jewish world and beyond, who felt the antisemitism watchdog had given a pass to a blatant offender.
Semitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigration AFD Party, urged Germany to “move beyond” Holocaust education, and appeared to do a fascist-style salute at a Trump inauguration party, which he denied. With Holocaust Remembrance Day approaching,
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A woman performs a Nazi salute while at a pro-Palestinian protest; Elon Musk on Monday; Adolf Hitler; a fan at a British soccer match in 2021; neo-Nazis in Australia in 2023; members of Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League in Florida in 2023.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the antisemitism watchdog group of “defending a Heil Hitler salute” before arguing that the ADL “works for” Trump and his allies.
CNN panelists descended into a shouting match Monday night as senior political commentator Scott Jennings defended tech mogul Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s biographer called him a “sociopath” after the MAGA billionaire’s 2024 visit to the Auschwitz death camp was dismissed by someone else at the event as nothing more than a “photo-op.” Musk,
The company, which has also discussed testing ads on the platform, previously pulled its dollars from the site in 2023 after X's failure to remove antisemitic posts.
Robinson has defended the gesture, with which he concluded his speech at the National Pro-Life Summit last week, as an ‘attempt at dry wit.’
President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.