Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a message of support Thursday for Elon Musk after the world’s richest man was accused of making a Nazi salute.

Musk “is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre… [and] has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”

Musk later thanked Netanyahu.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the one protest, as the Reich was falling, reeling from the defeat in Stalingrad. And there were plans floated about simply shooting all the protesters.

      Again, it’s just nonsense to declare Israel is now a nazi country. Fascism is very different than what Israel is.

      Doing terrible things doesn’t make one a nazi, and claiming it does makes you look like a child.

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          If you’ll go back to the start, you’ll remember the whole thread was about the stupidity of calling Netenyahu a nazi.

          By your logic, anyone that attacks a group of people on any group characteristics is a nazi. Which is goddamn nonsense.

          I get the appeal of calling people doing bad things nazis, but you sound like a child doing so. Worse, it makes it much more difficult for anyone to take our side seriously. (Same way that it is fucking stupid when trump called Harris a communist.)

          My workday is done and you aren’t worth my free time.

          Have a good weekend.