The editor in chief of Israeli news outlet Haaretz blasted Elon Musk’s visit to Israel, calling the tech billionaire a “blatant antisemite and publisher of antisemitism” amid backlash over antisemitic content on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Blatant antisemite & publisher of antisemitism Elon Musk should be persona non grata in Israel,” Haaretz editor-in-chief Esther Solomon wrote in a post on X, which Musk owns. “Instead, Netanyahu — plumbing new depths of amoral sycophancy — gifts him a PR visit to the kibbutzim devastated by Hamas. Profane, venal, bilious, both of them.”
Alongside Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Musk visited the Kfar Aza kibbutz Monday, touring one of the villages targeted in militant group Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault into southern Israel. Following the visit, which included meeting some of the families of victims, Musk said in an X Spaces conversation that it was “jarring to see the scene of the massacre.”
Musk was also briefed on some of the details of the attack, along with information about Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old American-Israeli citizen who was taken hostage by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack. She is among the dozens of hostages released as part of Israel’s four-day truce with Hamas.
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Haaretz editor-in-chief blasts Musk visit to Israel https://t.co/vSUlJGIjn7 pic.twitter.com/zf3eX9JX34
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Elon Musk is seeking to do damage control amid an advertising pullout over antisemitic remarks he made on X, the troubled social media platform once known as Twitter that the billionaire took over last year https://t.co/dkRIAASCbZ pic.twitter.com/EBqru1CaHB
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