Elon Musk, who has had to fend off allegations of anti-Semitism against himself and his social media platform It is reported that he will visit.
Musk will participate in a panel discussing online anti-Semitism at the European Jewish Association's annual conference in Krakow, Poland. According to Bloomberg News.
The two-day summit opens on Sunday ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th. The second day of the conference will include a tour of Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jews were exterminated.
Mr. Musk has not yet said whether he will go to a concentration camp, but he reportedly said he did so during a meeting with EJA leaders in Israel last September, shortly before Hamas's deadly terrorist attack. He said he agreed to go there.
EJA said the conference's “main focus will be to highlight the disconcerting rise in anti-Semitism in Europe, which has escalated since October 7.”
More than 1,100 Israeli soldiers and civilians have been killed after Hamas terrorists crossed the Israel-Gaza border and carried out widespread attacks that caught the country's proud military by surprise. Another 150 people have been abducted, and more than 100 are still held hostage.
Pro-Palestinian protests have erupted over Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip aimed at eliminating Hamas.
In November, Musk traveled to Israel to show solidarity with Israelis living in the town that was overrun by Hamas on October 7th.
The visit comes amid a growing backlash over anti-Semitic posts that repeat the metaphor that Jews are to blame for mass immigration.
The X poster wrote that Jews are “beginning to realize that the hordes of minorities who support flooding their countries don't like them very much.”
Musk, who bought Twitter in late 2022 and renamed it “X” in an effort to enable free speech on the platform, stood by the post as “actual truth.”
Influential Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League attacked Musk, who has steadfastly denied being anti-Semitic.
A few weeks later, ADL praised Musk after he promised to suspend X users who uttered phrases like “decolonization” and “from river to sea” when commenting about Israel. did.
But Musk's endorsement of conspiracy theories and a Media Matters report that allegedly showed pro-Nazi content next to posts published by major brands led to the ad boycott.
Disney, one of the companies that stopped advertising on X, drew Musk's ire.
The X owner lashed out at Disney CEO Bob Iger at a business conference, telling his company and others who have abandoned the platform to “fuck themselves.”
Bloomberg News reported last month that X Company's ad sales in 2023 are expected to fall to about $2.5 billion.
