Elon Musk landed in Krakow. We know the plan and reason for the billionaire’s visit to Poland

As announced, he appeared in Poland at the invitation of the European Jewish Association (EJA). The billionaire landed in Krakow on Sunday evening. The owner, among others, Portal Moreover, Musk is scheduled to meet with Lech Wałęsa on January 22. It is possible that the former president will accompany the founder and SpaceX during the visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum scheduled for Tuesday.

Elon Musk flew to Poland. He will educate himself about anti-Semitism

Both Elon Musk himself and the X platform he manages (formerly Twitter) have been facing accusations of anti-Semitism for many months. Last year, the Jerusalem Post published a study which showed that after its acquisition by Elon Musk, there was a significant increase in anti-Semitic content on the website.

In November last year, one of the X users posted an entry promoting an absurd conspiracy theory that they would promote hatred towards “whites”. He suggested, among other things, that they are responsible for bringing to the United States a large number of immigrants who are “flooding the country.” Elon Musk commented on the post referring to this theory with the words: “you told the real truth.” He also added that “not all Jewish communities” promote “racism against whites and Asians.”

The rich man’s comment caused a wave of outrage. On behalf of the White House, spokesman Andrew Bates published a statement in which he called the billionaire’s entry “unacceptable.” “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this abhorrent promotion of anti-Semitic and racist hatred that is contrary to our fundamental values ​​as Americans,” it said. Andrew Bates stressed that repeating such terrible lies is always unacceptable, especially a month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He was referring to the October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Reuters reported that Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment (LGFa.N), Paramount Global (PARA.O), Sony Pictures and Apple stopped advertising on the website under the influence of Elon Musk’s anti-Semitic post. He, in turn, announced that he would file a lawsuit against “all people who participated in this fraudulent attack on the company.” He also very strongly denied that his post was anti-Semitic.

Politicians reacted to Musk’s visit to Poland

After information appeared that Musk would visit Poland, the former Minister of Education in the PiS government turned to the billionaire with an unusual request. The MP invited Musk, among others. to the prison in Radom and to Przytuły Stare near Ostrołęka, where Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik are imprisoned. The former Minister of Education announced that “for the first time since 1989 we have political prisoners in Poland” and that “the attack on the Polish media, courts and broadly understood freedom continues.”

The portal mycompanypolska.pl. previously stated that during Musk’s visit to Poland there could also be a meeting with the management of the Ministry of Digitization, but as the ministry said, there are no such plans. “We would like to kindly inform you that there are no ongoing talks regarding the meeting of Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski with Elon Musk” – to the head of the technology department at Next Gazeta.pl. however, that he will also participate in the conference on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and that “maybe there will also be other politicians and government representatives.”