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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a message of support Thursday for Elon Musk after the world’s richest man was accused of making a Nazi salute.

Musk “is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre… [and] 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 later thanked Netanyahu.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Yes. Zionists are nazis. It's not hard.

Racist, expansionist, genicodal fascists heavily into ethnic cleansing and lebensraum. Sound familiar?

It was never about the specific ethnicities, it was about power. Back in the 1930s, Jews made a convenient target - they were isolated and 'other' enough, and they were slowly gaining equality.

The nazis were able to exploit the fear and resentment this caused, declare Jews the great enemy, and ramp up to a campaign of extermination to bolster their power and give cover to their ongoing invasions.

These days, Jewish people aren't occupying the same social niche. You can't exactly get people to riot about Elaine, after all.

However, LGBTQ (especially T) people make a fine substitute in the US, as do Latinx people.

And in Israel, they have the Palestinians to pick on.

It's the same game, same tactics, same everything - only the specific names change.