There is no direct evidence to support the claim that Elon Musk's maternal grandparents, Joshua N. Haldeman and Winnifred "Wyn" Josephine (Fletcher) Haldeman, were "Nazi party members in Canada," nor that they moved to South Africa "because they supported apartheid."

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,

“It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute,” the Anti-Defamation League wrote Monday in a statement on Musk’s own social media platform X, referring to Musk’s outstretched-arm movement that came as he was thanking his supporters.

"Elon Musk has repeatedly pushed for the racist and antisemitic 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory, endorsed the Nazi-sympathizing German Political Party AfD, and allowed anti-Jewish hate to proliferate unabated on his website, X," said Goldman in the statement, which was emailed to Newsweek on Tuesday.

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,

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

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: