ADL turns on Elon Musk after sparking backlash for defending his controversial inauguration salute

The Anti Defamation League has turned connected Elon Musk aft conscionable days aft defending the Tesla billionaire implicit his controversial inauguration salute.

The ADL - which works to combat antisemitism - initially gave Musk the payment of the uncertainty implicit an 'awkward' manus motion helium performed doubly aft Donald Trump's inauguration, which immoderate have compared to a Nazi salute.

But aft the ADL deemed the enactment was 'not a Nazi salute' and asked the nationalist to amusement Musk 'some grace' implicit his unusual show successful a 'moment of enthusiasm', the Tesla laminitis sparked caller fury with a bid of Nazi puns.

'Don't accidental Hess to Nazi accusations! Some radical volition Goebbels thing down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would've been He/Himmler!' Musk wrote.

'Bet you did nazi that coming,' helium added successful a last pun.

His station made airy of the names of Adolf Hitler's Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess; Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels; Reichstag President Hermann Göring; and Schutzstaffel (SS) Commander Heinrich Himmler. 

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has present condemned the off-color remarks.

'We've said it hundreds of times earlier and we volition accidental it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and violative to marque airy of it,' helium wrote.

'@elonmusk, the Holocaust is not a joke.'

The authoritative ADL X relationship besides addressed the controversy, though without addressing Musk personally.

'Making inappropriate and highly violative jokes that trivialize the Holocaust lone service to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of some victims and survivors and insult the representation of the six cardinal Jews murdered successful the Shoah.' 

Liberals went into meltdown aft Musk's awkward gesture, wherever helium enactment his manus implicit his heart, past changeable his manus retired to question to the assemblage successful Capital One Arena.

But conservatives person rushed to his defense, sharing photos of others, including Democrats, caught delivering akin motions.  

Joe Rogan has been 1 of his astir outspoken defenders, calling retired radical for playing a 'bullsh** game' of accusing 'everyone' of being a Nazi.

Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in, penning successful an X station connected Thursday that Musk 'is being falsely smeared.'

'Elon is simply a large person of Israel,' Netanyahu added of the South African native. 'He visited Israel aft the October 7 massacre successful which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish radical since the Holocaust.'

'He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel's close to support itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who question to annihilate the 1 and lone Jewish state,' the PM concluded.

Musk's begetter besides defended the motion during an interrogation with NewsNation big Chris Como.

Asked Wednesday nighttime astir the salute, Errol Musk said: 'It's implicit nonsense, it's implicit rubbish. Rubbish.'

'It's a cosmopolitan salute, or, arsenic you said, you know, throwing his bosom out, I suppose, yes, that's a cosmopolitan happening for thousands of years. So that's rubbish. That's a rubbish,' helium repeated.

The ADL were sharply criticized for defending Musk, labeled arsenic 'cowards' by outspoken critics who were wounded by the billionaire's actions.