Elon Musk is in Israel, where he saw a kibbutz that was assaulted by Hamas militants last month and is scheduled to meet with top authorities.
Elon Musk, who has faced criticism for antisemitism on his social media platform X, visited Israel on Monday, seeing a kibbutz that was assaulted last month by Hamas militants and meeting with key leaders. Benjamin Netanyahu, a billionaire and Israeli Prime Minister, visited the Kfar Azza kibbutz, a rural town that Hamas fighters seized on Oct. 7 in a horrific assault that triggered the conflict. According to a video published by Netanyahu’s office, Elon Musk, who was wearing a safety vest and was escorted by a phalanx of security personnel as rain fell, used his phone to snap images or videos of the wreckage.
The Tesla CEO and Prime Minister paid visits to the houses of the victims, including the family of Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old Israeli-American girl who was kept prisoner by Hamas after her parents were assassinated. She was released in the last round of exchanges during the Gaza cease-fire, which is slated to expire on Monday.
Musk was also scheduled to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Benny Gantz, a former defense minister who is now a member of the country’s special war Cabinet. Eylon Levy, a government spokesperson, declined to disclose if Musk was invited or came on his own. A request for comment was not returned by X, formerly known as Twitter. Shlomo Karhi, Israel’s communications minister, tweeted earlier Monday about a contract his government had signed with Musk’s Starlink satellite internet startup.
“As a result of this significant agreement, Starlink satellite units can only be operated in Israel with the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Communications, including the Gaza Strip,” Karhi stated, without elaborating. Since purchasing the platform last year, Musk has faced charges from the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish civil-rights organization, and others of condoning antisemitic remarks, and the content on X has come under increasing scrutiny since the war.
Following a report by the liberal advocacy group Media Matters that ads were showing alongside pro-Nazi content and white nationalist messages, a spate of prominent corporations, including Disney and IBM, opted to discontinue advertising on the platform. It happened the same week Musk promoted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, which sparked widespread condemnation, even from the White House. Musk responded to a user on X this month who accused Jews of disliking white people and expressing apathy toward antisemitism by writing, “You have said the actual truth.”
X has already sued Media Matters, alleging that the charity in Washington fabricated the article in order to “drive advertisers away from the platform and destroy X Corp.”The meeting on Monday is not Musk and Netanyahu’s first. In September, Netanyahu visited California and told Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he hopes he can find a method to combat antisemitism and other forms of intolerance within the bounds of the First Amendment.
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