The ADL defended Elon Musk’s “clumsy gesture”. Now he calls her a hate group

When Elon Musk gave two Nazi Style Hi, President Donald Trump’s day was inaugurated in January, the Anti-Diffamation League (ADL) came to the defense of the billionaire, saying that it was just a “clumsy gesture”. But Musk clearly does not have the same kind of affection for ADL.

“The ADL hates Christians, so it’s a group of hatred,” Musk wrote in a tweet on Sunday.

ADL hates Christians, so it’s a group of hatred

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 28, 2025

The billionaire CEO Tesla responded to an account called @Iamyesyouareno, which has about half a million followers. THE pseudonym account wrote: “ADL considers that Christianity is a hateful terrorist extremist belief. You don’t hate ADL enough. ”

The Christian identity (note the capitalization of I in identity) is an extremist ideology which believes that the Jews are the satanic offspring of the biblical monitoring and the snake of the Garden of Eden. All this is explained in the ADL page for Christian identity.

It is not clear if Musk understands the difference between Christian identity as a specific extremist ideology and the little-I Christian identity. The extremely right billionaire often operates in bad faith while discussing the policy on X, the platform he has, but he is not more intelligent with regard to many subjects.

Reached an e-mail comment, ADL pointed out Gizmodo a declaration of the ADL on the X account of the organization explaining the ideology of Christian identity. The answers for this tweet were disabled, perhaps because X has itself become an extremist platform filled with anti-Semitic hatred since Musk bought the site at the end of 2022.

The ADL also sent Gizmodo a link to a CEO of CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who wrote that the idea that the ADL is anti-Christian is “offensive and erroneous”.

“Many of our staff members are Christians. Many of our supporters are Christians,” Tweeted Greenblatt. “We are fortunate to work with many Christian brothers and sisters in the shared fight against anti -Semitism and all forms of hatred. On the other hand, the Christian identity movement is an anti -Semitic, racist and unambiguous ideology

The responses to Greenblatt tweets were also disabled, and the ADL did not specifically approach Elon Musk in its tweets.

Other high -level accounts have also recently commented on the ADL page on Christian identity, including representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida. Luna accused the ADL of “Inceive intentionally a targeted hate campaign against Christians.”

The conspiracy theorist, Laura Loomer, who took the credit for several dismissed people from the Trump administration to be supposedly unfair, responded to Musk that the ADL should be “designated as a domestic terrorist organization”.

Musk made several modifications after buying Twitter and modified the name in X, including a big change in the type of moderate content. The CEO welcomed white supremacists back which had been prohibited before Twitter, notably Nick Fuentes, who was able to attract much more attention since he was allowed to have a consumer platform. Fuentes has a long story of Adolf Hitler rental and dissemination of anti -Semitic hatred.

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– Aaron Rapar (@atrupar) January 20, 2025

The group X Out The Hate previously called Musk’s extremism, calling Apple and Google to delete X from its services after the two Nazi Style Style of the CEO.

“Since the Nazi salvation to its` `jokes ” of the holocaust to support the extremist party of AFD in Germany, Musk’s anti -Semitism has passed to the international scene,” wrote X Hate in February. “Almost daily, he distributes the theories of the odious conspiracy as the great theory of the replacement conspiracy, promotes neonazis and agrees with tweets affirming that the Jews push hatred against whites.”

Musk has already defended his greetings as something he did to express the idea he sent love to the public. And the ADL defended musk, insisting that the world is not only witnessing what seemed obvious for millions of people.

“It seems that @elonmusk made an annoying gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are at the forefront,” tweeted the ADL on January 20. “Right now, all parties should give themselves a little grace and work on the unit and take months.

Musk responded at the time with an emoji that cries while thanking the organization.

Thank you guys 😂

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2025

Musk also aroused controversy in 2023 when he approved a tweet that said that Jewish communities had pushed “hatred against whites”. Musk also attacked the ADL during this tirade, writing: “The ADL unfair attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel,” Musk wrote at the time.

The billionaire also threatened to prosecute the ADL for having frightened advertisers far from X. And more recently, he got angry by the fact that Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk, is listed on the ADL website as an extremist group. “”The ADL must change this now, ”tweeted Musk on September 27.

X did not respond to an email on Monday to ask for comments on Musk’s tweet calling ADL a group of hatred. Gizmodo will update this article when we hear.