Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday defended tech mogul Elon Musk and mentioned that he was being “falsely smeared” in a row over a gesture made by the billionaire at Donald Trump’s inauguration that drew criticism extensively with netizens even calling it a “Nazi salute”.
“Elon is a good good friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 bloodbath by which Hamas terrorists dedicated the worst atrocity in opposition to the Jewish individuals because the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s proper to defend itself in opposition to genocidal terrorists and regimes who search to annihilate the one and solely Jewish state. I thank him for this,” Netanyahu posted on X.
Netanyahu was responding to a publish by the X proprietor, which learn: “The novel leftists are actually upset that they needed to take outing of their busy day praising Hamas to name me a Nazi.”
What’s row round Musk’s straight-arm gesture?
Musk, throughout United States President Donald Trump’s inauguration, mentioned, “I simply wish to say thanks for making it occur.” Then he slapped his hand on his chest and prolonged his arm straight outward and upward together with his palm going through downwards.
He then circled and made an identical gesture going through the opposite approach. “My coronary heart goes out to you,” he mentioned. Many social media customers observed that the gesture seemed like a Nazi salute.
Musk has solely fanned the flames of suspicion by not explicitly denying these claims in a dozen posts since, although he did make gentle of the criticism and lashed out at individuals making that interpretation.
“The everyone seems to be Hitler assault is sooo drained,” Musk posted on X a number of hours after he left the stage. Critics and followers alike of the Tesla CEO and the world’s richest man had been fast to react to the gesture.