2023-11-27 01:07:11
US technology entrepreneur Elon Musk will meet President Isaac Herzog and relatives of the hostages kidnapped in the Gaza Strip during a visit to Israel on Monday. As Herzog’s office announced on Sunday evening, the Israeli president wants to emphasize the need to “combat increasing anti-Semitism on the Internet” during the conversation with Musk.
The meeting will also be attended by relatives of the hostages abducted by the radical Islamic Hamas, “who will speak about the horrors of Hamas’ terrorist attack on October 7th and the ongoing pain and uncertainty for the prisoners,” Herzog’s office said.
Since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israel and the start of the Gaza war, Musk’s online service In connection with the Gaza war, there was an increase in misinformation and hate messages on X.
But Musk personally is also criticized: Ten days ago, the White House accused the head of the electric car manufacturer Tesla and the space company SpaceX of spreading anti-Semitism because of a controversial message on X and sharply criticized the multi-billionaire.
Musk had previously agreed with an “You told the actual truth,” Musk wrote. The sentence sparked a storm of outrage.
The background is a right-wing extremist conspiracy theory, according to which Jews are pursuing a secret plan to bring migrants to Western countries in order to weaken the white majority. A spokesman for US President Joe Biden said it was “unacceptable” to repeat this “hideous lie”.
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