© Reuters. An Israeli flag flies on the highest of a tank, whereas Palestinians fleeing north Gaza transfer southward throughout a short lived truce between Israel and Hamas, close to Gaza Metropolis November 27, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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(Reuters) – Elon Musk, on a go to to Israel after being assailed for an anti-Jewish publish on his social media website X, acquired a symbolic dog-tag from the daddy of an Israeli taken captive by Hamas in Gaza and promised to put on it till all of the hostages have been free.
“Our hearts are hostage in Gaza,” learn the steel tag he acquired from Malki Shem-Tov, the daddy of hostage Omer Shem-Tov, in a video of Musk’s go to issued on Monday by the workplace of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Musk positioned it round his neck. In a while Monday he wrote on X: “I will wear it every day until your loved ones are released.”
The dog-tags, prevalent all through Israel, mark the Oct. 7 cross-border killing spree by Hamas throughout which 240 folks have been dragged again to Gaza.
On Nov. 15, Musk posted on X his settlement with a publish that falsely claimed Jewish folks have been stoking hatred in opposition to white folks, saying the consumer who referenced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy concept was talking “the actual truth”.
Following the publish, main U.S. corporations together with Walt Disney (NYSE:), Warner Bros Discovery (NASDAQ:) and NBCUniversal mother or father Comcast (NASDAQ:) suspended their commercials on X, previously often called Twitter.
The White Home criticised Musk for what it known as an “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate” that “runs against our core values as Americans”.
Musk has stated he’s in opposition to antisemitism and something that “promotes hate and conflict” and acknowledged that X wouldn’t promote hate speech.
