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## Elon Musk Faces Backlash for Embracing Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory

SAN FRANCISCO ÔÇö Tech billionaire Elon Musk faced backlash from some Jewish leaders and at least one advertiser Thursday after he again embraced an antisemitic conspiracy theory, the latest in a pattern of his echoing anti-Jewish bigotry going back years.

Musk sparked the criticism with six words he posted Wednesday afternoon on X, the social media app he purchased a year ago. Responding to another user who had accused Jews of hating white people and who had expressed indifference to antisemitism, Musk wrote: ÔÇ£You have said the actual truth.ÔÇØ

Musk, the CEO of the automaker Tesla and the rocket company SpaceX, followed up his first tweet with criticism of the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, an organization founded by Jews to oppose antisemitism. Musk has been feuding with the ADL for months over its efforts to reduce extremism on social media, a campaign that Musk says has cost X ad sales.

On Thursday morning, Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADLÔÇÖs CEO, said Musk was acting dangerously.

ÔÇ£At a time when antisemitism is exploding in America and surging around the world, it is indisputably dangerous to use oneÔÇÖs influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories,ÔÇØ he wrote on X, with a screenshot of MuskÔÇÖs six-word tweet.

Accounts with histories of espousing anti-Jewish views celebrated MuskÔÇÖs tweet as welcome news and as confirmation that he agrees with them ÔÇ£on the JQ,ÔÇØ short for ÔÇ£Jewish question,ÔÇØ a term used by antisemites for decades.

ÔÇ£This is old-timey antisemitism with new lingo,ÔÇØ said A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor of journalism who studies right-wing movements and media at the University of Alabama.

IBM said Thursday it had pulled its advertisements from X. A recent investigation by the progressive organization Media Matters found that advertisements from IBM and other corporations were running on X adjacent to pro-Nazi material.

ÔÇ£IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation,ÔÇØ the company said in a statement. A representative for IBM added that the company was investigating the Media Matters report, not MuskÔÇÖs posts specifically.

Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, said on the platform that antisemitism and discrimination are unacceptable, though she did not directly address MuskÔÇÖs tweets or IBMÔÇÖs move.

ÔÇ£When it comes to this platform ÔÇö X has also been extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discrimination. ThereÔÇÖs no place for it anywhere in the world ÔÇö itÔÇÖs ugly and wrong. Full stop,ÔÇØ she wrote. X also said in an email that Media MattersÔÇÖ investigation was flawed, in part because ads are designed to follow people as they browse the site, so the researcher saw the same ads multiple times in ways others might not.

By late Thursday, Musk had not addressed the backlash, and his tweets were still online. Emails to X seeking comment from him were not immediately answered.

Elon Musk’s Pattern of Antisemitism

Musk defended his past tweets in an interview with CNBC in May, saying he is a ÔÇ£prosemite,ÔÇØ not an antisemite.

MuskÔÇÖs latest comments came at a fraught time for Jews worldwide and in Israel. Reports of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. climbed 388% in the aftermath of HamasÔÇÖ terrorist attacks last month compared to the same period last year, according to the ADL. This week, the Biden administration announced an effort to reduce antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the director of global social action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization named for the famed Nazi hunter, said he was baffled by the way Musk uses X.

ÔÇ£I donÔÇÖt understand why Elon Musk, even though itÔÇÖs his toy, would jump in with this kind of statement, whatever his motivation may be, that further involves him with bigots,ÔÇØ he said.

ÔÇ£Experts who study antisemitism and other extremism said Musk was parroting decades-old baseless claims about JewsÔÇÖ colluding with one another at the expense of others.

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Musk has 163 million followers on X, more than anyone else, so what he publishes can have a real impact on the real-world actions of others, Hughey added.

ÔÇ£Elon Musk has been making antisemitic comments on Twitter and on other formats for many, many years,ÔÇØ said Bauer, of the University of Alabama.

ÔÇ£When someone tells you who they are, you should listen, and heÔÇÖs long been telling us that heÔÇÖs an antisemite,ÔÇØ he said.

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