(Jewish Group) Elon Musk has made some disturbing comments about Jews. Here's a list.
Elon Musk replied to a tweet Wednesday simultaneously promoting a QAnon conspiracy theory and hatred of Jews. It’s hardly the first time the one-time richest man in the world has trafficked in such talk.
Musk has made a number of statements and online posts over the last five years that can be categorized as antisemitic, including three over a 10-day stretch late last year. He sometimes quotes Nazis, and he has had chummy exchanges with avowed bigots. Since Musk bought Twitter in 2022, groups that track hate speech have documented spikes in racist, xenophobic and antisemitic activity on the platform.
The following is a running list of every instance of antisemitic activity involving Musk we have found so far. See one we missed? Send to editorial@forward.com, subject line: Musk + Antisemitism.
June 7, 2023: Musk responded to an antisemitic tweet about adrenochrome and actor-director Mel Gibson. The tweet contrasted a photo of President Joe Biden with his eyes closed and Gibson — who once blamed all wars on Jews and whose father was a Holocaust denier — in a muscle-bearing tank top. The tweet implied that Biden uses adrenachrome, a chemical that, according to QAnon conspiracy theorists, is harvested by a shadowy cabal (often comprised of Jews) through the trafficking and sexual abuse of children. Gibson is praised for hating “the Js,” or Jews. Musk’s response was to admire Gibson’s physique.
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