Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called out the SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk for his N**i Jokes on X. The Tesla chief, who was under fire for his hand gesture at Trump’s second inauguration, made some jokes on X referencing the names of disgraced N**i politicians.
After Elon Musk appeared to gesture like a Nazi salute, he was defended by the ADL and many Jews. Then he made a Holocaust joke.
“Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah,” the ADL said in a statement from its official account.
More than 50 subreddits – ranging in size from a few dozen members to millions, totaling at least 40 million members across the communities – issued bans this week, the report said.
Amid the uproar over Elon Musk's contentious salute at Trump's inauguration, Grimes, SpaceX CEO's ex-girlfriend, released a strong statement denouncing Nazism.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said, "Illinois is going to continue to be a beacon of policies that are antithetical to the retrograde policies of a Trump administration.”
Elon Musk stirred the ire of millions with a gesture that bared a resemblance to a Nazi salute. Two activist groups protested by projecting an image of Musk and different words on the Tesla factory in Berlin.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Elon Musk was being “falsely smeared” over a viral video of the Tesla CEO performing what many have said was a Nazi salute during a
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to the defense of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has been accused of giving a Nazi salute during Monday's inauguration celebration.
People use woke ideology as an excuse to be an a–hole, and it’s really just people that are a–holes that are attaching themselves to things that make them feel righteous.”
Netanyahu pointed to Musk’s visiting Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack and advocating for what he said was “Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”