- The tech mogul announced on his own platform that ‘all revenue from advertising & subscriptions associated with the war in Gaza’ will be donated to hospitals in Israel and the Red Cross in Gaza
- The move comes after Musk sparked furious backlash by appearing to promote anti-Semitic comments on X last week
Elon Musk announced on X on Tuesday that ‘all revenue from advertising & subscriptions associated with the war in Gaza’ will be donated to hospitals in Israel and the Red Cross in Gaza.
Musk said his company will ‘track how funds are spent’ and ‘go through Red Cross/Crescent’ to ensure that funds do not end up in Hamas’ hands.
The tech mogul added: ‘We should care about the innocent regardless of race, creed, religion or anything else.’
It comes after the Tesla billionaire was accused of promoting anti-Semitism after replying to a racist post with the comment: ‘You have said the actual truth.’
The controversial exchange took place on Musk’s X platform, formerly Twitter, last Wednesday when a man posted a rant criticizing a Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism campaign video.
In the video, a father is seen talking to his son about the online hatred the son has spewed, and calling him out for his rhetoric.
The X user dismissed the video, writing: ‘Jewish communities (sic) have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
‘I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest s*** now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.
‘You want truth said to your face, there it is.’
Musk, who has 163 million followers, replied: ‘You have said the actual truth.’
Musk has a long history of toying with dog-whistle rhetoric about Jewish people, in particular George Soros, who enraged him in May by selling his Tesla stock.
He has also angered people with his response to the Israel-Hamas war.
In the days after the October 7 Hamas terror attack, Musk was forced to delete a tweet which recommended an anti-Semitic account and a promoter of debunked videos as reliable sources of information about the attack on Israel.
Musk faced a furious backlash after telling his followers that the accounts @WarMonitors and @sentdefender were ‘good’ for ‘following the war in real time’.
Followers were quick to point out that @WarMonitors has repeatedly used ‘jew’ as a term of abuse on the platform, telling New York supermarket boss Avi Kaner to ‘mind your own business, jew’.
‘The guy Musk recommends for information on the Israel-Hamas escalation is an anti-Semitic account with a history of spreading misinformation,’ wrote Sam Sokol of Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
On Halloween, Musk appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and repeated his long-running criticism of 93-year-old billionaire financier George Soros, who has for decades backed progressive causes.
Soros, born in Budapest, survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and moved first to Britain, then the United States, where he began his hugely-influential philanthropy.
‘He is I believe the top contributor to the Democratic party,’ Musk told Rogan. ‘The second one was Sam Bankman-Fried.
‘And Soros, he had a very difficult upbringing.
‘In my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity. That’s my opinion.’
Musk said that he was deeply opposed to Soros’ work backing progressive district attorneys, who pursued policies he saw as soft on crime.
‘He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization – getting DAs elected who refuse to prosecute crime,’ said Musk.
‘That’s part of the problem in San Francisco, and LA, and a bunch of other cities.
‘So why would you do that?’
Rogan asked: ‘Is it humanity, or just the United States?’
Musk said it was worldwide.
‘He’s pushing things in other countries as well,’ Musk said.
Musk told Rogan that he thought Soros was ‘basically a bit senile at this point’ – in June, Soros handed control of the Open Society Foundations and the rest of his $25 billion empire to his 37-year-old son, Alex.
The foundation directs about $1.5 billion a year to groups such as those backing human rights around the world and helping build democracies. Alex Soros said he intends to broaden the foundation’s priorities to include voting and abortion rights as well as gender equity.
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