The White House on Friday, November 17, condemned the owner of social media platform X Elon Musk, for « abhorrent promotion » of anti-Semitism.
The White House was reacting to a post by Musk in which the controversial Tesla and SpaceX tycoon replied to a post on X with the words: « You have said the actual truth. » The original post has been perceived by the White House as a reference to a longtime conspiracy theory among White supremacists that Jews have a secret plan to bring in illegal immigrants to weaken white majorities. Most notoriously, the idea was promoted by the man who carried out a mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, killing 11 people. The post Musk replied to read as follows: « Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. »
« We condemn this abhorrent promotion of anti-Semitic and racist hate in the strongest terms, which runs against our core values as Americans, » Bates said. « 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. »
« It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of anti-Semitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust, » Bates said, referring to the October 7 assault by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel.
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