Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a message of support Thursday for Elon Musk after the world’s richest man was accused of making a Nazi salute.
Musk “is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre… [and] 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.”
Musk later thanked Netanyahu.
Mussolini supports Hitler.
Oh a member of the Likud party is good with Nazis. That tracks.
Clown world
Oligarchs are all in the same big mentally-ill sociopath club. They know they’re the devil and they revel in being evil. They only care about wealth and power, and their only common goal is keeping the proles fighting each other, instead of dragging them into the street and making them pay for their crimes; for the irrevocable damage they’ve done to all of us, and our societies.
I’m not convinced most of them actually believe any of the horseshit they spout. Their words are just a means to achieving their goals.
Oh I know they’re all amoral hypocrites. I was more referring to the fact that they can spout such blatant hypocritical nonsense and the rest of the world just goes along with it.
Ah, the “better to reign in hell” type
Israel is full of fascists, so no surprise they’re carrying water for a Nazi.
Just FYI: Netanyahu’s parents emigrated to Israel in the 1920s because they were as fervently Zionist as you can get. They even changed their name from something Polish to Netanyahu since that’s a blatantly Semitic name.
In short- not only did he and his family not suffer from the Holocaust, they benefited from it because it furthered their own goals.
So this should not be in any way surprising even if the genocide of Palestinians had not started under his watch.
It is politically convenient for Isreal to embrace Musk… hence why the ADL was so quick to downplay the nazi salute initially.
Well, time for everyone to put support for Israel in their bio and start sieg heiling around Jerusalem, see how long it takes before double standards are applied…
Nazi defends nazi
Since nazis hate jews by definition and assuming Netanyahu’s statements are true, Musk is not a nazi.
Nah, Nazis hated Jews just because they needed to hate someone to justify their own existence but they’ll switch to any other easy scapegoats and work with whoever they need to hold on to power
People also forget that nazis killed 5 millions non jews. Not to say that there was no systematic killing of jews from being jewish and not to say thst a final solution wasn’t planned for jews
In terms of practicality Nazi Germany Nazis hated Jews bcs that was already the style at the time (it’s easier to use & inflate current public arguments than to seed completely new ones), they just added German efficiently into it’s propaganda & weaponisation.
for additional context:
the anti-jewish sentiment in europe goes back to the early middle-ages, and only fell out of fashion (mostly, until recently) after the holocaust and the de-nazification programs in austria/germany.
same goes for anti-roma/sinti racism and anti-black racism; very old concepts, always convenient tragets for the far-right, since the sentiments are difficult to completely eradicate and easily spread by mass media.
Since nazis hate jews by definition
That’s not the definition, that’s an association.
It’s like saying that the definition of an American is someone who hates tea. That’s a much older association (and the comparison is tongue-in-cheek), but this kind of thing isn’t how definitions work.
I’ve got really bad news for you about how Musk feels about Jewish people.
Like why even give him the benefit of the doubt, you can just look up all the antisemitic shit he’s tweeted and retweeted.
Are you implying that Netanyahu speaks for all Jews? Israel and Zionism do not equal Judaism and Netanyahu definitely doesn’t.
Oh wow, fascist 1 defends fascist 2 and says that they’re not fascists… who woulda thunk it?
What does the word fascist mean according to you?
A fascist is someone who believes in a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.
Lets see, nation over individual? Yup, very much so
Centralized autocratic government? Yup, see DOGE.
Dictatorial leader? Given that trump openly admires dictators and that musk supports him, also yup.And the economic regimentation has been going on for a while now. (the rich become richer, the poor become poorer and have far less power)
The denial of the existence of trans people already means a social regimentation. So that’s another check mark.The suppression of opposition: See what’s happening in Texas by their team members of the republican party, where they’re trying to oust the Democratic party from major political roles in committees and such.
I’d say, it’s valid to call these people fascist.
Especially Nazi Saluting Musk, who supports openly fascist, former leader of Reform UK, Tommy Robinson in the UK, the very fascist AfD in Germany (so extremely far on the right, that even far right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen distanced herself from them)
fascist also see compassion as weakness
And where the distinction between business and government gets very vague. Musk standing next to Trump on the podium is a clear sign how far conflict ot interest has been launched out the window.
Dont forget the obsession with masculinity
And their desire for traditional gender roles.
After getting a thorough definition, i gotta ask, what’s it mean to you…?
You see, Trump has to come out and openly say he is building a fascist regime and fly swastikas and call it the fourth Reich. These people have a reduced cartoonish understanding of history and political and economic systems. So unless reality matches their cartoonish notions then it doesn’t count. And even then they will be twisting themselves into knots trying to explain how it’s not ackchually fascism same as people are doing now with denying Elon Musk doing a very clear nazi salute
Trump has to come out and openly say he is building a fascist regime and fly swastikas and call it the fourth Reich.
Exactly. I’ve seen some mental gymnastics that would make Cirque members writhe in agony. “How can it be genocide if there’s still Palestinians?” or “Israelis are Jewish, they can’t be Nazis” and on and on.
According to me it means what it means. You’re free to look that up on sites like wikipedia.org and google.com and as well as in the dictionary, you can then read papers and theses and essays to your heart’s content on “national socialism” or “Naziism” or “fascism” or any number of related concepts.
Consolidation of industry and government is one of the textbook definitions that was given to me in school. We are seeing it now as we speak.
Among many other aspects that were covered by other comments.
This is essentially: “As a black man, those white hooded robes and burning cross definitely aren’t racist imagery!”
So he can’t watch a video? How the hell is a jew a nazi collaborator?
Unfortunately it’s far from the first time
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_collaborators_with_Nazi_Germany
“forcefully supported” sounds totally like a phrase good guys use. strange bedfellows. strange times.
This is like a fever dream Marvel crossover title Nazi Jews.
