Jewish Leaders Call for Boycott After Elon Musk's Nazi Salute, Holocaust Jokes
Jewish leaders are pushing advertisers to drop Musk's hate speech incubator X-formerly-Twitter following his Nazi salutes and Holocaust jokes.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54702117
Could you guys also scrap the ADL? They seem to have jumped the shark in defense of his nazi salute.
"Us guys" do not universally support the ADL.
Just like we do not universally support Israel.
Can you guys stop deciding what every Jew supports? I'm getting really fucking tired of both telling people that you're wrong and being told I'm the wrong one back because of my genetics.
You may be a leader and you may be Jewish, but I interpreted that comment to specifically mean the people in power who maintain this connection. That is, “you guys” sounds like an appeal to the Jewish leaders referenced in the article, the US leaders that support the ADL, or both.
I might be wrong, I don’t know OP or what they truly believe. If there is context I’m missing that changes the message, I will stand corrected.
Notice how the state of Israel has nothing to say about this?
Nothing to say? The ADL defended Elon!
That (nazi salute) isn't antisemitic at all!
That's because Isreal has been slowly co-opted by xenophobic right wing extramists under the guise of survival.
Always has been. Pre WW2 socialist Jewish currents pretty much all unanimously opposed Zionism.
I know a good boycott to the oligarchs
I find it very on brand for these guys to simultaneously piss off Jewish people and Palestinians within just a couple weeks.
the thing with israel is that it's an anti-semitic state. zionism is an anti-semitic stance. also palestinians are also semitic. it's just… all so dumb
And evangelicals want all the Jews in the world forcibly exiled to Israel because they think that's the only way Jesus will return.
And those motherfuckers better have zip ties and guns if they expect me to put a molecule of my body across the Israeli border.
So, a real group of Jewish Leaders rather than a Zionist sockpuppet like the ADL.
Nazi salutes. He did it twice.
Hey, at least they called it "Nazi" and not something wishy-washy like "awkward", "problematic", or "Elon Musk salute".
The salute is just a symbol of much larger antisemitic moves by Elon. It's not hard to find neo Nazis posting swastikas and the like on X and many Jewish users have indicated that reporting those images goes nowhere despite them being specifically enumerated as banned in the official terms of use. There's plenty of evidence out there that Elon is in fact a far right racist if not outright Nazi.
A rich white guy from South Africa might be a nazi? I hardly believe it!
White nationalists are just the same as white supremacists. If there are Jewish people who think Christian Nationalism will protect them, they're forgetting that Nazis were and are very Christian.
Authoritarian leaders turn on their own people and supporters all the time, this has been proven time and again in history. Whatever America is now though, there is still hope in the judiciary and the constitution.
they’re forgetting that Nazis were and are very Christian.
They're forgetting about "Group 13" as well.
Well they should've thought about that before the elections. It's now unwise to antagonize an all powerful dictator.
Even though his scapegoat isn't the Jewish people, I don't think it's impossible they'd still add you to the list later on.
They should have probably boycotted him at the polls, instead of voting for him.
In what let's call the Jewish diaspora there is a strong thread of fascism. The fascists currently (and for some time now) are in control of the israeli government. If the israeli people were not in support of such fascism they are doing a poor job of expressing it. Globally fascism among jews is not universal, probably not even a majority though I have no hard data here. Anecdotally among the Jewish people I know there is one rabidly fascist of the kill all the Palestinians ilk, a few who claim not to support genocide but will get loud and in your face at any criticism of it and many who are disgusted by it and will openly say so. Your mileage may vary.
I think it’s fair to say that when people are facing an existential threat they find it hard to criticize that which protects them. People should just be anti-genocide because leaders cannot be trusted all the time. But what are the chances that the Muslim citizens in Arab countries would protest if a genocide happens to their perceived enemies? Sometimes the best defense people have against authoritarianism is empathy, don’t let something happen to someone else that you don’t want happening to you.
Edit downvotes explain yourself? I am just being brigaded by extremists on every post.
What are the Holocaust Jokes referenced in the title? Didn't find an explanation in the article.
For context, I'm a German missing out on many news and stories, for sanity reasons. But I'd like to know more about this.
Elon's response to the world saying they saw a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration. Not quite an "oops, I didn't mean it that way"
Elon’s response to the world saying they saw a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration. Not quite an “oops, I didn’t mean it that way”
Oh, WOW! Glad I asked. Will happily add this to a conversation with a 'skeptical' friend.
Honestly, I found some genuinely funny and actually laughed. But I would never share stuff like that in public, if at all, certainly not in a position like Musk, especially not after that salute. Guess he's testing the waters or normalizing.
Anyways, thanks a lot for the info with screenshot! Once more, reality trumps satire. When asking the question, I thought it might be about some hints here and there requiring interpretation. I did not expect something so blatant.
I think they should fund Jewish folks getting guns, ammo, and training. Oh, and moving vans and arranging for shelter in Blue States. Musk wants your lives and to add what smidgen of wealth you have to his hoard.
Pot, kettle.
Oh look, yet another person who thinks that Jews genetically support genocide in Gaza.
Because it's really fucking obvious from multiple responses in this thread that saying, "I do not support Israel or its genocide and never have" is not good enough. Not when you have the genocide gene.
But do you condemn hamas?
/s
What? But Jewish people love being nazis! Just look at Gaza!
The majority of Israelis (and all the American Zionists) who approve of the genocide do not speak for the Jewish people
Most of the American Zionists aren't even Jewish.
Many of them expect to laugh at all the Jews thrown into hell for not accepting Jesus after they're all forced to return to Israel so that Jesus can return.
Do not fucking speak on my behalf.
do not let the loudest people from a group convince you they represent that group. they don't.
White people just can't help being nazis, just look at hitler!
It would mean more if Israel weren't actively genociding Palestinians.
Oh look, someone who thinks that "Jew" and "Israeli" are synonyms.
As always, no matter where I live, no matter how much I say I hate Israel, I will always be a foreigner and a Zionist.
