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Elon Musk visited Auschwitz and set out to deal with online anti-Semitism on Monday at an event in Poland, just weeks after he sparked a firestorm by endorsing an anti-Jewish conspiracy theory on his social media platform X.
The European Jewish Association said Musk laid a wreath and participated in a memorial service on a personal scale at the former death camp alongside EJA President Rabbi Menachem Margolin. The photos showed Musk at the scene with his son on his shoulders.
Musk and US right-wing political commentator Ben Shapiro were due to speak later at a conference hosted by the EJA.
Musk apologized in November after responding “the genuine truth” to a post on X, formerly Twitter, that he criticized for echoing a conspiracy theory among white supremacists and prompted advertisers to suspend classified ads on the platform.
The tech mogul has also been accused of spreading hate speech on X, since acquiring the social network for $44 billion in October 2022.
Senior political figures from European countries and Musk will meet in Krakow “to discuss and find solutions to the astronomical rises in anti-Semitism affecting Europe,” the EJA said.
“This worrying trend” has intensified since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the agreement.
The symposium comes shortly before the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, a date that has become Holocaust Memorial Day.
One million European Jews died in the camp built by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland between 1940 and 1945, along with more than 100,000 non-Jews.
– ‘Pro-Semitic’ –
Margolin invited Musk to stop at Auschwitz in a live debate broadcast by Array
Musk claimed that this could be “helpful. . . as an example to others. “
During the discussion, Musk described himself as “fundamentally Jewish” and attended a Hebrew preschool.
“It’s absurd to be accused of anything when all the evidence points in the opposite direction and my whole life story is prosemitic,” he added at the time.
Musk has threatened to file a lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group, over its claims that problematic and racist speech has proliferated since his inauguration.
X Corp is also currently suing non-profit Media Matters on the grounds that it has driven away advertisers by portraying the site as rife with anti-Semitic content.
– ‘Stupidest message ever’ –
Musk’s post in November said Jewish communities were advocating “dialectical hatred against white people. “
Musk’s endorsement has led to a spate of X deviations from major advertisers and the White House has accused him of “abhorrent promotion” of anti-Semitism.
The social media titan later apologized for what he called “literally the worst, stupidest post I’ve ever made. “
He said he had been misunderstood and tried to explain it in the thread’s next posts.
After the controversy, the SpaceX founder visited Israel but said the trip had been planned earlier and was not an “apology tour”.
Israel’s figurehead, President Isaac Herzog, told the tech mogul that he had “an enormous role to play” in the fight against anti-Semitism.
“We have to fight it together because, unfortunately, there’s a lot of anti-Semitism in the platforms they run,” Herzog said.
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