Elon Musk, After a Visit to Auschwitz, Says He’s Found Antisemitism in His Own Family and Calls Himself an ‘Aspirational Jew’

Former premier of Italy calls anti-Jewish hatred ‘a problem not only for Jews but all people with western values — we are all Jews.’

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Elon Musk visits the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German death camp at Oswiecim, Poland on Monday. EJA/Yoav Dudkevitch via AP

KRAKOW, Poland — Billionaire Elon Musk, in a rare interview after a visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp, says he was stunned to find antisemitism within his own family. The entrepreneur added that his family member had told him that America “deserved to have the Twin Towers destroyed because of our foreign policy.”

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