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We've said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,
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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 saidElon Musk is being falsely smeared. Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He 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. I thank him for this."
Netanyahu wrote
If I see one more damn Nazi salute in my feed, I’m gonna lose my mind."
The tech billionaire, in another post saidMy professional opinion is that you're all right, you should believe your eyes,
Aubin posted on X, aligning with those who found the gesture was an overt reference to NazisI have criticized Elon Musk many times for letting neo-Nazis pollute this platform, ... But this gesture is not a Nazi salute.
he wrote on X, addingHe’ ... s absolutely correct is that 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,
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And so they wrap themselves in this idea to give them virtue and to allow them to say the most awful things about other people that have different perspective,
Rogan said
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This is what victory feels like! And this was no ordinary victory, this was a fork in the road for human civilization,
Musk saidI just want to say thank you for making it happen, thank you. From my heart to yours."
He made the gesture and said
That salute was evocative of things we’ve seen through history,
CNN host Kasie Hunt saidUS billionaire Elon Musk appeared to make a Heil Hitler salute at the Washington DC Trump parade on Monday, following Trump's inauguration."
The Jerusalem Post posted an article about the gesture on X and captioned it statingI mean this is the Donald Trump excuse. You’d do anything you can to stop Hitler, you know, right? And this is why they want to conflate, and they always want to pretend that everyone’s Hitler."
He saidThe shape of the gesture is very clear....his look is completely rigid and that also fits in with the Nazi gesture."
Amadeu Antonio Foundation spokesman Lorenz Blumenthaler
He's claiming it's just a joyful greeting to his followers. I think Musk knew exactly what he was doing."
Blumenthaler addedOur perspective over the last five to 10 years is that German courts are very hesitant to prosecute the Hitler salute,
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Hatred of the Jews affects the behavior of people in many places around the world, and you have a huge role to play in this.”
During his visit, Israeli president Isaac Herzog told Musk
Elon Musk may be the world’s richest man but that does not excuse his thanking the Trump supporters with a Heil Hitler Nazi salute,
Foxman posted on social media site X, previously known as Twitter before Musk bought itElon is a great friend of Israel,
the prime minister saidWhen I see the troll emoji, it’s like looking in the mirror.”
Musk followed his Nazi puns with a post reading