Elon Musk told a rally the German far-right AfD party, just before Holocaust Remembrance Day, that Germany should get over "past guilt."

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Semitic, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigration AFD Party, urged Germany to “move beyond” Holocaust education, and appeared to do a fascist-style salute at a Trump inauguration party, which he denied. With Holocaust Remembrance Day approaching,

A woman performs a Nazi salute while at a pro-Palestinian protest; Elon Musk on Monday; Adolf Hitler; a fan at a British soccer match in 2021; neo-Nazis in Australia in 2023; members of Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League in Florida in 2023.

Elon Musk may be ready to move on from the Holocaust, but not everyone is on board. Dani Dayan, chairman of the Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem, hit back at the divisive billionaire’s call for Germany to stop feeling guilty about its past.

Of all the dark moments during Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, the darkest may have been the moment Trump acolyte and world’s richest man Elon Musk threw up not one but two Roman salutes—the gesture most strongly associated with Nazis and the phrase “Heil Hitler,

Washington, D.C. — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will restrict free speech in the name of combatting antisemitism in schools. In response, Ben Olinsky, senior vice president for structural reform and governance at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement:

CNN panelists descended into a shouting match Monday night as senior political commentator Scott Jennings defended tech mogul Elon Musk

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the antisemitism watchdog group of “defending a Heil Hitler salute” before arguing that the ADL “works for” Trump and his allies.

This was no Nazi-like gesture. What we saw was an exuberant Musk, emotionally, and yes, awkwardly, trying to connect with his adoring crowd.

The re-coronation of the lumpen-capitalist Donald Trump as US president is a no-doubt consequential moment. Yet Trump has increasingly been second banana