FOX Business senior correspondent Charlie Gasparino analyzes the controversial “X” post on “The Claman Countdown.”
Tech billionaire Elon Musk vowed to suspend anyone advocating the “genocide of any group” from his X platform after he was accused of amplifying an anti-Semitic tone earlier this week.
“At the risk of stating the obvious: anyone who advocates genocide against *any* group will be suspended from this platform,” Musk wrote in a post on X.
“As I said earlier this week, ‘decolonization’, ‘river to sea’ and similar euphemisms necessarily mean genocide. Clear calls for extreme violence violate our terms and conditions and will result in suspension,” Musk wrote.
Musk faced some backlash over an exchange on X earlier this week.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reacts during a talks event with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Lancaster House on November 2, 2023. (Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Images / Getty Images)
Charles Weber, who describes himself as a Jewish conservative, wrote to his 14,800 followers: “To the cowards who hide behind the anonymity of the Internet and post ‘Hitler was right’: Do you have something you want to say? “Why don’t you say it?” our faces…”
Another user who goes by “The Artist Formerly Known as Eric” replied: “Okay. Jewish communities have propagated exactly the kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim people want to stop using against them.”
“I am profoundly uninterested in spouting even the slightest bit of nonsense now about the Western Jewish population coming to the disturbing realization that the hordes of minorities supporting the flooding of their land don’t particularly like them,” the user added in the post added 1.6 million views (as of Sunday).
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak shakes hands with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after a talks event at Lancaster House on November 2, 2023. (Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Images / Getty Images)
“You want the truth told to your face, there it is,” the user wrote.
In response to that post, Musk wrote on Wednesday: “You told the actual truth.”
CNN anchor Jake Tapper shared a screenshot of the exchange and wrote, “Elon Musk is pushing unvarnished anti-Semitism at a time of rising anti-Semitism and violence against Jews.”
Several users discussed what Musk meant by the post before the tech billionaire elaborated.
“The ADL unfairly attacks the majority of the West, even though the majority of the West supports the Jewish people and Israel,” Musk added. Wednesday. “This is because, on their own principles, they cannot criticize the minority groups that pose their greatest threat. This isn’t right and it has to stop.”
Elon Musk poses for a selfie with Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation Georgi Dubyinski at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 1, 2023 in Bletchley, England. (Toby Melville – Pool/Getty Images / Getty Images)
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On Friday, one user, Shibetoshi Nakamoto, who has 2.1 million followers, wrote recently. Heck, Tiktokers even support Osama Bin Laden. Is only “left-wing” anti-Semitism okay?”
Musk responded flatly: “Great question.”