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Israel hosted Elon Musk on Monday, where he toured sites of the October 7 massacre and was shown footage of the violent acts committed by the terrorist organization on Israeli soil.
Musk voiced support on Monday for Israel after it came under attack by Hamas terrorists, saying one challenge was “ultimately stopping the propaganda that is convincing people to engage in, you know, murder.”
After hearing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying Hamas must be destroyed in a live online chat, Musk said: “There’s no choice.” Musk, visiting Israel during its war on Hamas in Gaza, added: “I’d like to help as well.”
Netanyahu and Musk later held a live chat on X, which can be listened to in full below.
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) November 27, 2023
Musk visited Kibbutz Kfar Aza early Monday, where he was shown a presentation of the terror attack and listened to the head of the Negev Council, Yossi Keren, and a member of the IDF Spokesperson’s unit, Liad Diamond.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Elon Musk also went to the home of the Liebstein family, where Musk heard the story of the heroic acts of the late Ofir Liebstein, the head of the council who was murdered on the morning of October 7 in an exchange of fire with terrorists who infiltrated the kibbutz.
Musk was also brought to the site of the abduction of Abigail Idan, a 4-year-old American-Israeli, who was kidnapped on October 7 after her parents were murdered in front of her. Idan crawled under her father’s body to hide. She was abducted from the Itamari home, where Musk was shown photos taken shortly after the 7th.
Israel and Musk said an agreement in principle was reached for using his SpaceX company’s Starlink communications in the Gaza Strip, where a pause to the war against Hamas coincided with the tech entrepreneur’s visit.
Musk has said he is against antisemitism and anything that “promotes hate and conflict” – including on X.
Following the outbreak of the Gaza war, antisemitic incidents in the United States rose by nearly 400% from the year-earlier period, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit organization that fights antisemitism.
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