Relatives of hostages held in Gaza will also be present at the meeting with President Herzog
Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman accused by human rights groups of fueling anti-Jewish hatred on the X platform he owns, will meet in Israel tomorrow with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, Channel 12 TV broadcast.
President Herzog confirmed tonight that he will meet Musk on Monday and plans to stress to him the need to combat rising anti-Semitism online. Relatives of hostages held in Gaza will also be present at the meeting.
Representatives for Tesla, Musk’s other company, and X (formerly Twitter) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk’s visit coincides with the fourth day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu had met with the businessman on September 18 in California and urged him to find a balance between protecting freedom of expression and fighting hate speechafter controversy erupted over anti-Semitic content on the X platform. Musk then responded by saying he stands against anti-Semitism and anything that “promotes hatred and conflict,” reiterating earlier announcements that his platform would not promote hate speech .
On November 15, however, Musk appeared to agree with a post on X that falsely claimed that Jews incite hatred against whites. To the user who invoked the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, Musk replied that he was telling “the exact truth.” The White House denounced the promotion of “anti-Semitic and racist hatred” while major companies including Walt Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast pulled their ads from the platform.
The “Great Replacement” theory says that Jews and leftists are planning the ethnic and cultural replacement of whites by non-white immigrants, which will lead to “white genocide.”
Source :Skai
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