The richest businessman in the world, Elon Musk, has missed the opportunity to speak at the business summit of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Forum Business Forum, which is being held today in San Francisco and whose most notable news has been the summit between the American presidents, Joe Biden, and Chinese presidents, Xi Jinping held yesterday.
Musk was scheduled to participate in a debate on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at a quarter to five in the afternoon (a quarter to two in the morning Spanish peninsular time) with the CEO of the ‘cloud’ and online services giant Salesforce, Marc Beniot . But the organization has decided, without any explanation, to replace Musk with Joe Biden’s special envoy against climate change, John Kerry. Kerry’s experience in AI is, as far as we know, close to zero, although the topic of the talk has not changed.
Musk’s fall could be due to his support for a tweet with a markedly xenophobic and anti-Jewish tone posted on Wednesday by an anonymous user of his social network X (formerly known as Twitter), called ‘The Artist Formely Known as Eric’ formerly known as Eric’), who only had 4,009 followers yesterday. The message read, “OK. Jewish communities have been pushing for the same kind of dialectical hatred toward whites that they say they don’t want people to use against them.
“I am profoundly uninterested in giving a shit about how Western Jewish communities feel now that they are realizing that they are not liked by those hordes of minorities they want to flood our countries.”
Musk responded: “You told the honest truth.”
Many have interpreted Musk’s tweet as an endorsement of the theory that Jews want open borders to weaken the white and Christian population and, especially, that those who support immigration to the United States deserve to be attacked by those immigrants. In reality, the situation is very different. It is true that the fact that there is a greater proportion of the population of Arab and Muslim origin in the US than in the past. But it is also true that the division in that country’s society due to the Gaza war, and the considerable number of protests against Israel, are not dominated by immigrants, but by the younger population.
In this sense, there seems to be a clear fracture in American society, where those under 30 years of age are much more critical of the Jewish State than their elders. This, in turn, presents a huge problem for the Government of Joe Biden, which has aligned itself completely on the side of Israel, which could cost it the support of the young electorate, without which the Democrat cannot win re-election. In this sense, the Gaza war has been another nail in Biden’s aspirations to remain in the White House after January 20, 2025.
Thus, the line from ‘The Artist Formerly Known as Eric’ can be interpreted as supporting the idea that “the Jews deserve it.” The fact that Musk supports it puts the owner of Twitter in a complicated position, because it rains in the wet.
A study carried out by the think tank, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD, according to its acronym in English) detected this year that the number of anti-Jewish messages on Twitter doubled after the purchase of the platform by Elon Musk in October 2022 The current owner of Twitter has lifted the platform’s moderation controls, thus giving free rein to all types of extremists on both sides to post inflammatory comments, insults, threats, slander and conspiracy theories. All of this has coincided with his journey from the political center to the far right, following the decision of one of his ten children to change sex and stop bearing the last name “Musk.” The businessman, traumatized by his terrible relationship with his father, has never gotten over that blow, and has attributed his offspring’s decision “to the communist indoctrination of the universities” in the United States.
Of course, Twitter is not an isolated case. According to the ISD, since October 7, anti-Jewish videos on YouTube (owned by Alphabet, which also owns Google) have multiplied by 50.
For Musk, the loss of his speaking position at the conference is a blow to his ego – which is considerable – and to his business. APEC has brought together in San Francisco the presidents, prime ministers, and trade ministers of 21 economies (the organization does not use the term “countries” so that China and Taiwan can be members), from Argentina to India, passing through Japan. , Singapore or Australia, which account for more than half of the world’s GDP.