X-chief visits destroyed kibbutzim in attempt to calm backlash of antisemitist comment PHOTO/VIDEO

American entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of the social network X (formerly Twitter), shortly after arriving in Israel, together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, went to the border with Gaza - to Kibbutz Kfar Aza, which survived the terrorist attack on October 7.

Musk was told about the tragic events of that day by the head of the Shaar HaNegev council, Yossi Keren, and the representative of the IDF press service, Liad Diamond, according to NEWSru.co.il.

His visit is seen as an attempt to control the outrage that he caused by his endorsement of an anti-semitic post on his social media platform, X, as reported by CNN. The billionaire entrepreneur agreed online with a user's claim that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites” by commenting on his post saying “You have said the actual truth”.

His action caused tremendous damage to his social media platform as multiple heavy-weight companies rushed to flee X and cut ties with it, leading the platform to lose multi-million advertisement deals with the likes of IBM, Paramount, Sony, Disney, the European Union and many others.

While he later went on to defend himself by saying he did not believe hatred of White people extends “to all Jewish communities", but said that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization that fights antisemitism around the world, “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 and Netanyahu visited the home of Ofir Liebstein, head of the Shaar HaNegev regional council, who was killed in Kfar Aza in a shootout with terrorists on October 7.

A meeting with the Israeli President Isaac Herzog was also planned, where, according to his office, the president intended to raise the issue of combating rising antisemitism online, a hint to Musk's own action.  

In the course of Musk's visit also visited the house of the Itamari family killed by terrorists, where Musk was told the story of the little girl Abigail Idan, a citizen of Israel and the United States, whose parents died on October 7 (she was released from captivity yesterday).

Then Musk and Netanyahu visited the youth area of the kibbutz, which was almost completely destroyed and burned by terrorists.