Elon Musk took time from his busy schedule as President-elect Donald Trump's errand boy to shut down the federal government just in time for Christmas to praise yet another piece of anti-Semitic discourse from Tucker Carlson.
This time, Musk endorsed a conversation between Carlson and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs during which both men engaged in apologia for deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad blaming Israel for his ouster while claiming Israel controlled U.S. foreign policy. Musk called their conversation, "A very interesting interview."
Back in September, Musk also thought Carlson's conversation with Holocaust denier Darryl Cooper was, "Very interesting. Worth watching." Cooper claims Hitler did not conceive of the Final Solution against the Jews. In November 2023, Musk praised a tweet in which a white supremacist argued Jews pushed hatred against whites writing, "You have said the actual truth." At the time I wrote:
Of course, none of it is true and all of it is defamatory which is precisely the point.
When one says Jewish are promoting hatred against whites what is actually being said is the old blood and soil argument that Jews aren't white and therefore deserve everything that is coming to them.
And Elon agrees.
When the richest man in the world openly promotes anti-Semitism at a time when anti-Semitism is already surging, he is throwing gasoline onto the fire.
Musk did "apologize" for the November 2023 tweet but pretty much said the same thing about the ADL two months earlier.
The one difference between his praise of Carlson's conversation with Sachs is that Musk is now serving President-elect Trump under the auspices of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. If Musk is making these statements while working for the incoming Trump Administration, then it is reasonable to ask if Musk's views of Israel also represent Trump's views.
Unfortunately, I don't think there will be inclination among Democrats to pose these questions. Why? Because more than a critical mass of Democrats is every bit as hostile to Israel and to Jews as Musk is - or at the very least are willing to look the other way.
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