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.

  • brvslvrnst@lemmy.ml
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    5 个月前

    I wish I could upvote this harder. The Jewish people were subjected to horrific evils, but that wasn’t just going to stop with them.

    Society did a great job of teaching about the atrocities except to really hammer home that it was the “other” that was the target, not just that single group; they are the first, but wouldn’t be the last if the Nazis were allowed to continue.

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      5 个月前

      It didn’t just stop with them.

      Slavs, gypsies, LGBT people (I guess this one actually happened before Jews), some war prisoners, Communists, blacks, etc were targeted and holocausted too.

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        5 个月前

        That’s a good callout on me! I didn’t mean to insinuate it was only that group one at a time, so thank you!