The Anti-Defamation League called out tech mogul Elon Musk this week for supporting a movement to ban the civil rights organization.
The ADL’s CEO and national director, Jonathan Greenblatt, issued a statement Tuesday countering Mr. Musk’s weekend posts on X, formerly Twitter.
“It is profoundly disturbing that Elon Musk spent the weekend engaging with a highly toxic, antisemitic campaign on his platform — a campaign started by an unrepentant bigot that then was heavily promoted by individuals such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes, Christian nationalist Andrew Torba, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others,” he wrote.
Mr. Musk spent the past few days openly asking if the ADL should be banned from X. The billionaire boosted several conservative accounts that posted #BanTheADL. Mr. Musk even floated the idea of suing the ADL. “To clear our platform’s name on the matter of antisemitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony,” he wrote Monday.
Mr. Musk’s posts come after dozens of Nazis marched through the streets of Orlando, Florida, waving flags with “Ban the ADL” on them.“Musk is engaging with and elevating these antisemites at a time when ADL is tracking a surge of bomb threats and swatting attacks of synagogues and Jewish institutions, dramatic levels of antisemitic propaganda being littered throughout Jewish and non-Jewish residential communities, and extremists marching openly through the streets in Nazi gear,” he wrote.
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