Dozens of protesters on Monday honked horns and waved Israeli flags outside San Jose Mineta International Airport as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down on his way to meet billionaire businessman Elon Musk.
Netanyahu’s office said their meeting will include discussions about artificial intelligence. It comes at a time when Musk is facing accusations of tolerating antisemitic messages on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Critics say the plan — which would weaken the Supreme Court — is a profound threat to Israeli democracy and that it would concentrate power in the hands of Netanyahu and his allies. Sachs said the protesters plan to follow Netanyahu around on his trip, including his visit to Tesla. The Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish civil-rights organization, has accused Musk of allowing antisemitism and hate speech to spread on X. Its director, Jonathan Greenblatt, said Musk had "amplified" the messages of neo-Nazis and white supremacists who want to ban the league by engaging with them recently on X.
But analysts who track Twitter have argued that Musk’s chaotic changes to the platform — including jettisoning its well-known brand name — have led to a decline in interest from advertisers.
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