Elon Musk's Controversial Tweets and Criticism of George Soros

Israel's minister of diaspora affairs, Amichai Chikli, defended Elon Musk's recent comparison of George Soros to a comic book supervillain, saying that Israel did not view it as antisemitic. This contrasts with Israel's Foreign Ministry, which had previously condemned Musk's comments as promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. The split view of Soros in Israel reflects a divide between those who see his critics as employing classic antisemitic tropes and those who believe his liberal politics damage Israel and the Jewish people. Online vitriol against Soros has risen alongside Israel's far-right in recent years, with many accusing him of antisemitism.