The Anti-Defamation League known as out tech mogul Elon Musk this week for supporting a motion to ban the civil rights group.
The ADL’s CEO and nationwide director, Jonathan Greenblatt, issued a press release Tuesday countering Mr. Musk’s weekend posts on X, previously Twitter.
“It is profoundly disturbing that Elon Musk spent the weekend engaging with a highly toxic, antisemitic campaign on his platform — a campaign started by an unrepentant bigot that then was heavily promoted by individuals such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes, Christian nationalist Andrew Torba, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others,” he wrote.
Mr. Musk spent the previous few days brazenly asking if the ADL must be banned from X. The billionaire boosted a number of conservative accounts that posted #BanTheADL. Mr. Musk even floated the thought of suing the ADL.
“To clear our platform’s name on the matter of antisemitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony,” he wrote Monday.
Mr. Musk’s posts come after dozens of Nazis marched via the streets of Orlando, Florida, waving flags with “Ban the ADL” on them.
Mr. Greenblatt says this exhibits the hazard of the state of affairs on X.
“Musk is engaging with and elevating these antisemites at a time when ADL is tracking a surge of bomb threats and swatting attacks of synagogues and Jewish institutions, dramatic levels of antisemitic propaganda being littered throughout Jewish and non-Jewish residential communities, and extremists marching openly through the streets in Nazi gear,” he wrote.
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