Netanyahu calls Musk a 'great friend' of Israel after his Nazi salute
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 23 called American entrepreneur Ilon Musk a "great friend" of Israel after his Nazi salute.
"Musk is falsely slandered. Ilon is a great friend of Israel," he wrote on the X network (formerly Twitter).
Netanyahu recalled that after the October 7, 2023 attack on a kibbutz by militants of the radical Palestinian Hamas movement on October 7, 2023, "the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust," the American businessman visited Israel and has since then repeatedly strongly supported the state's right to self-defense.
"I thank him for this," the Israeli prime minister emphasized.
Earlier, on January 21, Musk accused the Democrats of dirty receptions after showing a "Nazi salute". To his publication, the businessman attached one of his old posts, in which he noted that the Democrats, apparently, will start a black PR-campaign against him for the fact that he defected to the Republican Party.
Before that, on January 20, it was reported that Musk showed a gesture similar to a Nazi greeting at Trump's inauguration. He noted that he wanted to thank those gathered for making the re-election of the American leader possible. The Trump adviser then slapped himself in the chest with his right hand and then raised it upward diagonally.
On January 22, 2024, Ilon Musk, who has been accused of anti-Semitism, visited with his son a museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz) in Poland. He admitted that until recently he was "naive" about the extent of anti-Semitism, saying it was because most of his friends were Jewish and he had little contact with them in his life.
