The back-and-forth highlighted a widening split among Jewish leaders over how to characterize the causes of the global antisemitism crisis.
Elon Musk publicly challenged Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt’s comments at the World Economic Forum about what is driving antisemitism in Europe, by citing US antisemitism envoy Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun’s assessment, VINnews reports.
The disagreement traces to a Davos discussion on antisemitism, extremism, and social cohesion where Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, appeared alongside Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa.
In that session, Goldschmidt presented antisemitism as a problem with several simultaneous sources. He pointed to threats associated with the far right, the far left, and radical Islam, while cautioning against casting Muslim communities as the main engine behind current antisemitic activity.