Elon Musk told a rally the German far-right AfD party, just before Holocaust Remembrance Day, that Germany should get over "past guilt."
The chairman of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center has accused Elon Musk of insulting victims of Nazism after the billionaire told a German far-right political party that the country needed to “move beyond” the “guilt” of the past.
Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, 89, and his wife Julie Gray, 60, have called out Elon Musk for his behaviour during a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp - they said Gidon was used as a 'prop'
QUACK QUACK QUACK On Saturday, billionaire Elon Musk made a brief appearance at a rally for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — a growing, far-right nationalist contingency boasting ties to neo-Nazism looking to take power in a fast-approaching German election — to urge the crowd to focus less on the sins of Germany's not-too-distant genocidal past.
Elon Musk may be ready to move on from the Holocaust, but not everyone is on board. Dani Dayan, chairman of the Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem, hit back at the divisive billionaire’s call for Germany to stop feeling guilty about its past.
After defending Musk's viral salute, The Anti-Defamation League is criticizing the tech billionaire for making a series of Holocaust jokes.
Musk has been under scrutiny after making a hand gesture resembling a Nazi salute at a Trump inauguration event earlier the week.
Musk's comments came two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day and right after he was criticized for making what many viewers interpreted as a Nazi salute during an inauguration speech.
Semitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigration AFD Party, urged Germany to “move beyond” Holocaust education, and appeared to do a fascist-style salute at a Trump inauguration party, which he denied. With Holocaust Remembrance Day approaching,
Musk made a virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany’s far-right AfD party, saying “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents.”
The chair of Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, said Sunday tech billionaire Elon Musk’s call for Germans to “move beyond” the crimes of Nazi Germany is dangerous for the country’s