Billionaire Elon Musk said that he\u2019d like to help rebuild Gaza after the war with Hamas in a conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, part of a day-long series of meetings with political leaders in Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s important to first \u201cderadicalize\u201d the Palestinian territories, similar to how other Arab states have become more moderate in recent years, including Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu said in a live discussion broadcast on X, the site formerly known as Twitter<\/a>, on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Musk, who is under fire for amplifying antisemitic content on X, is meeting with Israeli officials and toured the Kfar Aza kibbutz where some of the worst violence occurred on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants broke through the country\u2019s border barriers and attacked civilians. Musk described seeing bullet shell casings in cribs on the tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n Still, Israeli leaders stopped short of publicly chastising Musk. Netanyahu didn\u2019t address the latest antisemitism row on X in the approximately 20-minute broadcast on X. Benny Gantz, an opposition leader and member of the three-man war cabinet, and President Isaac Herzog emphasized the dangers of letting hatred fester in their public comments.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to fight it together because on the platforms which you lead, unfortunately, there\u2019s a harboring of a lot of all the hate, which is Jew hatred, of antisemitism,\u201d Herzog said in a memo of the meeting provided by the government. \u201cIt always starts with the Jews, it never ends with the Jews.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n After watching footage of the attack by Hamas, designated a terrorist group by the US and European Union, Musk called the apparent joy expressed by the killers \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cjarring.\u201d Israel has been showing footage of the attack by Hamas in screenings around the world.<\/p>\n Musk has defended himself from what he labeled \u201cbogus media stories\u201d after he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory earlier this month on X. Major brands including Apple<\/a> Inc. and Walt Disney<\/a> Co. have stopped advertising on his social media platform over concerns of increasing antisemitism and hate speech since he took over Twitter last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n The political storm over hate speech on X hasn\u2019t subsided, despite Musk\u2019s warm welcome in Israel. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wrote in an op-ed on Monday that she was quitting X because it had become a site full of disinformation, antisemitism, overt racism and organized harassment.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn recent years, Twitter has become the weapon of mass destruction for our democracies,\u201d she wrote in the editorial, which she also\u00a0posted<\/a>\u00a0to X. \u201cThe platform and its owner act deliberately to exacerbate tensions and conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n