“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."

Elon Musk said he is “Jewish by association” during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.

“I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. … Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish,” the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. “I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association.”

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    10 months ago

    “I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism."

    Elon Musk agrees with tweet accusing Jewish people of ‘hatred against whites’

    Is he an idiot lacking in self-awareness, or just a good old fashioned liar? Maybe both? The fact that he was getting bad press for his antisemitism and decided that a visit to Auschwitz was a “gotcha” to prove he was a good guy is in itself kind of antisemitic.