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Haaretz Editor-in-Chief Says Elon Musk 'Should Be Persona Non Grata in Israel'

Published: November 27, 2023
  |   By Cassandra MacDonald
Haaretz Editor-in-Chief Says Elon Musk 'Should Be Persona Non Grata in Israel'

The editor-in-chief of Haaretz weighed in on Elon Musk's visit to Israel, calling him an "antisemite" and saying that he "should be persona non grata in Israel."


Esther Solomon, editor-in-chief of the Israeli outlet, published her complaints about the visit on X, the platform owned by Musk.

Solomon also took issue with Netanyahu, accusing him of "plumbing new depths of amoral sycophancy" for meeting with him.

"Blatant antisemite & publisher of antisemitism Elon Musk should be persona non grata in Israel," Solomon wrote. "Instead, Netanyahu - plumbing new depths of amoral sycophancy - gifts him a PR visit to the kibbutzim devastated by Hamas. Profane, venal, bilious, both of them."


Musk visited the Kfar Aza kibbutz and the settlement that was attacked by Hamas alongside Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. He also visited with some of the families of victims.

After the visit, Musk did a Spaces chat with Netanyahu on X.


Musk recently filed a lawsuit against the leftist organization Media Matters, who published a report claiming that advertisements are appearing next to Nazi content on X. The report prompted many large advertisers to leave the platform, including Apple, Bravo, Oracle, Xfinity and IBM.

“Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts on X Corp.’s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform,” the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas last week stated. “Media Matters designed both these images and its resulting media strategy to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.”

The eccentric billionaire also faced accusations of "antisemitism" for agreeing with a post that said "Jewish [communities] 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 sh-t 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,” the post continued. “You want truth said to your face, there it is.”

Musk replied, “You have said the actual truth.”


CNN's Jake Tapper responded to Musk's comment, accusing him of “pushing unvarnished anti semitism at a time of rising antisemitism and violence against Jews.”

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