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<\/a><\/p>\nElon Musk delivers a salute at a Trump immigration rally. Inset: Musk’s Holocaust joke post. (Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThe ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is [sic] a hate group,\u201d Musk wrote Sunday, responding to a pseudonymous account that had claimed the ADL views Christianity as extremist.<\/p>\n
The exchange drew quick amplification from right-wing figures. U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, accused the ADL of \u201cintentionally creating a targeted hate campaign against Christians.\u201d Provocateur Laura Loomer went further, urging that the ADL be \u201cdesignated as a domestic terror org.\u201d<\/p>\n
At issue is the ADL\u2019s page on \u201cChristian Identity,\u201d a specific white supremacist theology that portrays Jews as descendants of Satan and has been linked to violent extremism. The ADL, in a statement, explained that the ideology is \u201cantisemitic, racist, and unambiguously poisonous\u201d and bears no resemblance to mainstream Christianity. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on X that the suggestion his group is anti-Christian is \u201coffensive and wrong,\u201d noting that \u201cmany of our staff members are Christian. Many of our supporters are Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s outburst is notable because, as recently as January, the ADL had defended him after he appeared to make a Nazi-style salute during Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration. At the time, the group called the gesture \u201cawkward,\u201d a comment that drew backlash within the Jewish community and from the group\u2019s left-wing critics.<\/p>\n
The latest clash adds to a series of Musk\u2019s attacks on the ADL. In 2023, he endorsed a post alleging that Jews were pushing \u201chatred against whites\u201d and accused the ADL of \u201cunjustly\u201d targeting Western societies. He has also threatened to sue the organization for scaring advertisers away from X and recently demanded that it remove Turning Point USA, the group founded by Charlie Kirk who was assassinated earlier this month, from its database of extremist groups.<\/p>\n
Kirk\u2019s assassination took place the same day as a school shooting in Colorado allegedly by a gunman whose online activity had been flagged by a member of the ADL\u2019s extremism monitoring division.<\/p>\n
Since acquiring Twitter in late 2022, Musk has reshaped the platform\u2019s approach to content moderation, reinstating banned white supremacists such as Nick Fuentes, who has praised Adolf Hitler and trafficked in antisemitic rhetoric. Civil rights groups, including the ADL, have warned that such moves have fueled a surge in online hate.<\/p>\n
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