Elon Musk To Meet With Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel Amid Accusations Of ‘Anti-Semitism’: Report
Amid his controversial tweets leading to accusations of anti-Semitism, Elon Musk is reportedly heading to Israel to meet with top government officials and to tour border towns near Gaza.
The Jerusalem Post cited Hebrew broadcast channel N12’s report that Musk “will meet with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit.”
Musk met with Netanyahu in California in September before the brutal Hamas attack that killed some 1,200 civilians in Israel. According to the Associated Press:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off a U.S. trip in California to talk to billionaire businessman Elon Musk about antisemitism on his social media platform X — while Musk asked him to address his judicial overhaul in Israel. The two also discussed artificial intelligence in a sparsely attended livestream event Monday.
Since that time, the entrepreneur has raised eyebrows by attacking the Anti-Defamation League, and agreeing with a blatantly anti-Semitic post on X that CNN’s Jake Tapper called “unvarnished anti-Semitism.”
“You have said the actual truth,” Musk wrote under a post that claimed Jews pushed “hatred against whites.”
This prompted a denunciation from White House spokesperson Andrew Bates:
We condemn this abhorrent promotion of Antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms, which runs against our core values as Americans. We all have a responsibility to bring people together against hate, and an obligation to speak out against anyone who attacks the dignity of their fellow Americans and compromises the safety of our communities.
Musk later said that X would be “donating all revenue from advertising & subscriptions associated with the war in Gaza to hospitals in Israel.”
Business Insider reported that a Musk visit remains unconfirmed by the Israeli government: “Sources in the president’s office were not able to confirm the visit at the time of reporting. Representatives for Netanyahu did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment.”
