Musk removes APEC CEO from speaker list after controversial remarks

Musk removes APEC CEO from speaker list after controversial remarks
11/16/2023 9:08am. Barrons

Tesla owner Elon Musk is no longer listed as a speaker at the 2023 APEC CEO Summit.

It was not immediately clear why his name was removed from the schedule, but the change came after Musk supported claims that the Jewish community was inciting hatred of white people.

Musk was set to co-host a session with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called "Conversations on AI and the Future," which took place on Thursday in line with the summit's schedule.

By Thursday morning, Musk's name had been replaced by John Carey, according to the group's website.

Late Wednesday afternoon, an X user named "The Artist Formerly Know as Eric" wrote in some quarters. "The Jewish community has incited the exact kind of dialectical hatred of white people. It's the kind of hatred that they wanted to stop."

Musk wrote in X (formerly Twitter). "You told the actual truth."

Musk's Tesla and APEC CEO Summit did not immediately return a response to the rescheduling.

On Wednesday evening, Musk posted a photo from San Francisco. In another post on X, he wrote, "It is difficult to be accommodated by any normal person because it inevitably suggests a Holocaust of the Jews." -(This is very controversial, meaning it is an unacceptable argument to many) -

He believes that all Jewish communities do not hate white people, but argues that the Anti-Defamation League "unjustifiably attacks the majority of the West because they cannot blame the minority, their main threat, on their own principles, even though the majority of the West supports the Jews and Israel."

ADL (Half-Temple League) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Thursday condemned Musk's latest comments in his X post. "With the explosion of anti-Semitism in the United States and globally, it is clearly dangerous to use your influence to approve and promote anti-Semitic theories," Greenblatt wrote in a direct reference to Musk's tweet.

Musk and the Anti-Defamation League have been at odds ever since Musk announced an increase in anti-Semitic hate speech at X after he took it over.

In September, Musk threatened to accuse ADL of defamation, which he claimed made companies hesitate to advertise on the platform.

On Thursday, Tesla shares fell 2.7% in the early afternoon. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite was flat.

Prior to Thursday's trading session, Tesla shares continued their four-day winning streak, up about $33, or 16%, from $210 to $243.