Episode 51: Elon Musk, Twitter and Palestine

First aired on 14 January 2023

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man bought Twitter last year. Since then the company has been turned upside down. More than half the staff have left or been forced out. The company has hemorrhaged money. Musk has claimed to be a champion of free speech and has vowed to make Twitter better by “making the algorithms open source” and “defeating the spam bots”.

But is Musk a defender of free speech in general or is it a case of “except for Palestine”?

On the one hand, Musk has acted against censorship by restoring many Twitter accounts. He has annoyed the Zionist Anti-Defamation League. It called for an advertising boycott over the fact that many of the key moderation staff implementing anti-Palestinian censorship in cahoots with Zionist groups were sacked from Twitter.

Musk has also allowed the publication of the so-called “Twitter files”. Among the many secrets revealed are the industrial-scale demands made by the FBI, CIA, and the Pentagon to remove independent journalists from twitter and to protect covert propaganda accounts run by the US government.

But Musk also seems close to Israel. In 2018, he traveled to Israel and met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his private residence to discuss how to bring future technology to Israel. In recent weeks Musk praised the Foreign Ministry’s Twitter account, saying that more countries should use the platform as the Zionist entity does. He also appointed Bari Weis to report on the Twitter files exposures. Weis, like Musk, is a purported free-speech defender. But, being a Zionist, thinks nothing of targeting supporters of Palestine to be canceled.

Early indications are that Musk operates with this double standard too. Take the case of the Jisr Collective, supporters of the liberation of Palestine. Their account was suspended after a pro-Zionist troll falsely claimed the group was a “terrorist group actively promoting and celebrating violence against Jews.” Musk replied that such posts were “not ok.” The account was duly suspended.

But these details aside it is not so easy to evade the real pressures of the business environment in which Zionist agents of influence are much more prominent than supporters of the Palestinians.

The involvement of “super agent” Ari Emanuel in brokering the deal between Musk and Twitter is also notable, especially given his hardline Zionism. Emanuel has appeared at gala fundraisers for the “Friends of the IDF” organization which splurges millions on supporting Zionist terror.

This is hardly surprising given that his family has a long-standing involvement with Zionist terror. His father, Benjamin smuggled guns for the Irgun terror gang.

Even if Musk wanted to improve Twitter for supporters of Palestine, the objective conditions of the social media and elite business world, and their systemic bias towards Zionism would likely make that a losing battle.