Elon Musk made a surprise visit to Israel, meeting with PM Benjamin Netanyahu and touring one of the kibbutzim raided by Hamas on October 7th. Pictures showed Musk wearing a bullet-proof vest and examining one of the babies the terrorists murdered during their massacre. 

Netanyahu put out the following statement: "I toured Kibbutz Kfar Gaza with Elon Musk to show him up close the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas."

סיירתי עם אילון מאסק בקיבוץ כפר עזה כדי להראות לו מקרוב את הפשעים נגד האנושות שביצע חמאס @elonmusk

(צילום: עמוס בן גרשום, לע״מ) pic.twitter.com/aipX6ryv7T

— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) November 27, 2023

Musk didn't just show up to do a photo-op either. He sat down for a viewing of the atrocities committed by Hamas, most of which were recorded by the terrorists' own bodycams. 

He’s watching the video of the atrocities now. https://t.co/S8muvL3Cnj

— Yoni Leviatan (@songsofyoni) November 27, 2023

As RedState reported, the billionaire was previously accused in mid-November of antisemitism for the following interaction. 

The comment stemmed from an X user's post that claimed Jews "have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." 

Musk responded, "You have said the actual truth" while also criticizing the Anti-Defamation League, an advocacy group that works to combat hate against Jewish people. "The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.   This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat," Musk tweeted.

In reality, however clumsy it may have been, Musk was not trying to be antisemitic. Rather, he was critiquing the ADL and other Jewish advocacy groups which have adopted many of the anti-Western talking points of the left over the years, including redefining racism to only apply to white perpetrators and other intersectional nonsense. 

Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew who has no tolerance for actual antisemitism, explained the situation shortly after the controversy arose. 

Ben Shapiro defends Elon Musk’s criticism of the ADL and progressive Jewish organizations whose policies have resulted in the widespread increase in anti-Western and anti-Jewish sentiment throughout the West. pic.twitter.com/CAcRElPQ7i

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 16, 2023

I would consider Musk's trip to Israel as setting the record straight. Going to Israel to see the sites of the atrocities and viewing videos of them shows a man who wants to understand what happened and respond accordingly. He has already pledged ad revenue from his social media site to Israel to help with the recovery. Actions speak louder than words, which are very often taken out of context or are judged with no grace being offered. 

Antisemitism obviously exists. It has exploded since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th and almost exclusively on the far left. It does no good to provide those actual antisemites cover by pretending Musk trying to make a nuanced argument about a left-wing organization is also antisemitism, especially when he was so quick to clarify the matter.