Jewish Leaders Call for Boycott After Elon Musk’s Nazi Salute, Holocaust Jokes

“Elon Musk is one of the leading purveyors of antisemitism in the world and presents an urgent danger to Jews and many other groups the world over.” After billionaire Elon Musk performed not one but two Nazi salutes at president Donald Trump’s inauguration, made appalling jokes about the Holocaust, and threw his weight behind Germany’s far-right political party, Jewish leaders are pushing advertisers to drop Musk’s in-shambles social network X-formerly-Twitter. As the Washington Post reports, more than 160 rabbis and activists have published a public letter calling the world’s richest man an “urgent danger to Jews” and “one of the leading purveyors of antisemitism in the world.” “When the world’s richest man combines political power with a platform that can mobilize hate, the danger becomes immediate and lethal,” the letter reads. “We face a stark choice: stand up now or watch as hate spreads unchecked.” The letter highlights Musk’s worrying embrace of white supremacist and antisemitic beliefs, which have seemingly been sharpened by his own social media platform. Musk has a track record of antisemitism and racial animus against other groups. In 2023, Jewish leaders wrote a strikingly similar letter to X advertisers after Musk outright called a deeply antisemitic tweet the “actual truth.” At the time, Musk claimed that he had “no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League,” threats that the billionaire never made good on. He also claimed — without giving a shred of evidence — that the ADL was to blame for 60 percent of ad sales decline at X. Research has shown that his social media platform has succumbed to a tidal wave of hate speech and antisemitism under his leadership, which has proliferated in a near-total absence of content moderation. Advertisers, which have long represented Twitter’s main revenue stream, have had an extremely rocky relationship with Musk’s hate speech incubator. Many major brands returned to the platform last fall, despite their ads appearing next to posts celebrating Adolf Hitler and other instances of blatant hate speech. However, X-formerly-Twitter’s financials are stagnating, as Musk admitted himself in a recently leaked email.

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