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Shkruar nga PamfletiBillionaire businessman Elon Musk, accused by human rights groups of inciting anti-Jewish hatred on the X platform he owns, will meet tomorrow in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, The Guardian reports.
President Herzog confirmed on Sunday night 11/26 that he will meet with Musk on Monday 11/27 and intends to stress to him the need to combat growing anti-Semitism online.
Relatives of the 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 asked him to find a balance between protecting freedom of expression and fighting hate speech, following the controversy 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," repeating previous announcements that his platform will 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 called the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, Musk responded 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.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have risen in the US and around the world, including during the now seven-week war between Israel and Hamas.
After the war broke out, anti-Semitic incidents in the US rose nearly 400% from the year-ago period, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a non-profit organization that fights anti-Semitism.
Musk has said that X should be a platform for people to post different points of view, but the company will limit the distribution of certain posts that may violate its policies, calling the approach "freedom of speech, not achievement."
Musk is developing an artificial intelligence startup xAI, and Israel is considered a world leader in the field, thanks to its growing computing and robotics industries.
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