Some Jewish leaders renew calls for X boycott as Musk’s power grows – The Washington Post

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Some Jewish leaders renew calls for X boycott as Musk’s power grows

February 4, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. EST, Today at 9:00 a.m. EST 6 min

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Some Jewish leaders renew calls for X boycott as Musk’s power grows.

Photo caption: Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade Jan. 20 in Washington, D.C. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images) Editor’s Note: This is a Nazi salute.

More than 160 Jewish leaders, including dozens of rabbis and mostly left-leaning activists, are making a fresh push for advertisers and app stores to drop Elon Musk’s X over concerns of antisemitism.In a letter shared with the Tech Brief ahead of its publication Tuesday, the authors — under the banner of a campaign called X Out Hate — write that Musk “presents an urgent danger to Jews” via his leadership of X and “sweeping power” in the Trump administration.

They call him “one of the leading purveyors of antisemitism in the world,” citing his recent Nazi-esque salute and Holocaust jokes, his support of Germany’s largest far-right party and the proliferation of antisemitic hate on X.

“When the world’s richest man combines political power with a platform that can mobilize hate, the danger becomes immediate and lethal,” they write. “We face a stark choice: stand up now or watch as hate spreads unchecked.”

The letter underscores divergent views among Jewish leaders in how to respond to Musk.

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