The re-coronation of the lumpen-capitalist Donald Trump as US president is a no-doubt consequential moment. Yet Trump has increasingly been second banana
The ADL seems less forgiving of suspected antisemitic comments and gestures when they come from Black celebrities.
Of all the dark moments during Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, the darkest may have been the moment Trump acolyte and world’s richest man Elon Musk threw up not one but two Roman salutes—the gesture most strongly associated with Nazis and the phrase “Heil Hitler,
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for defending Elon Musk's alleged "heil Hitler salute" at Donald Trump's inauguration.
Musk then slapped his chest with his right hand, before flinging it diagonally upwards, palm face down. He turned around to audience members behind the podium, and repeated the gesture. “My heart goes out to you,
The most shocking thing that happened in this first week of the second coming of President Donald Trump was not the attempt to cancel birthright citizenship or the blanket pardons of Jan. 6 rioters. It was the Anti-Defamation League’s bizarre and baseless rush to declare Elon Musk’s post-inaugural performance an “awkward gesture” and definitively “not a Nazi salute.
Hours after President Donald Trump’s inauguration ... arm movement that came as he was thanking his supporters. The ADL added, “In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of ...
“Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah,” the ADL said in a statement from its official account.
After previously feuding with Musk, pro-Israel group rushes to defend gesture, which critics compared with Nazi salute.
After defending Musk's viral salute, The Anti-Defamation League is criticizing the tech billionaire for making a series of Holocaust jokes.
Jewish groups are split in their response; many applauding the president’s action, others bringing up First Amendment concerns.
The Anti-Defamation League, the storied antisemitism watchdog and civil rights organization, is facing backlash after it defended billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk shortly after a video of him gesturing in a manner similar to a Nazi salute circulated across social media.