Elon Musk to meet Israeli leaders on Monday, Israel TV says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur accused by civil rights groups of amplifying anti-Jewish hatred on his X social media platform, will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog in Israel on Monday, Channel 12 TV said on Sunday.
An Israeli source confirmed the visit by Musk, a billionaire who also runs Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX. Spokespeople for Tesla and X, formerly known as Twitter, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Musk's visit coincides with a four-day truce in an Israeli war with Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza.
Netanyahu met Musk in California on Sept. 18 and urged him to strike a balance between protecting free expression and fighting hate speech after weeks of controversy over antisemitic content on X.
Musk responded by saying he was against antisemitism and against anything that «promotes hate and conflict,» repeating his previous statements that X would not promote hate speech.
During that visit, before the war, about 200 people protested efforts by Netanyahu's right-wing government to curb the powers of Israeli courts. They gathered outside Tesla's California factory, where the meeting took place.
Then on Nov. 15 Musk agreed with a post on X that falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user who referenced the «Great Replacement» conspiracy theory was speaking «the actual truth.»
The White House condemned what it called an «abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate» that «runs against our core values as Americans.»
Major U.S. companies including Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS), Warner Bros Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) and NBCUniversal parent Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) paused their advertisements on his
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