Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, came to the defense of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying the tech entrepreneur was being unfairly tarnished by accusations of Nazi sympathies.

Not long after, Musk made a pun-filled social media post using the names of infamous Nazi officials like Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels.

In his post early Thursday, Netanyahu said Musk was being “falsely smeared,” responding to a post where Musk said he was being accused of being a Nazi after he made a gesture at a Donald Trump rally Monday critics said was reminiscent of the infamous Nazi arm-extended salute.

“Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Netanyahu said. “He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”

Musk has downplayed or made fun of the criticism and made a video of his remarks that included footage of the salute his pinned post to his X........

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