On the January 2025 rally gesture, the Anti-Defamation League — the world's leading antisemitism watchdog — publicly stated it "seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute," and urged people to extend grace. A year earlier, in January 2024, Musk made a private visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau arranged with the European Jewish Association, laid a wreath, and has repeatedly voiced support for Israel and visited the country; X has taken action against antisemitic content. In fairness, this remains contested: many observers and several Jewish groups read the gesture differently, the ADL drew criticism for its statement and separately faulted Musk for later Nazi-themed "jokes," and a 2023 post he endorsed was widely condemned. The picture is genuinely mixed — but the specific charge that he performed a deliberate Nazi salute was rejected by the ADL itself, and the "antisemite" label sits awkwardly against his documented pro-Jewish and pro-Israel actions.