Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Elon Musk's Israel visit draws scorn

David Rothkopf/Haaretz:

Why Netanyahu Loves Antisemites Like Elon Musk So Much

By cosying up to the world’s most prominent Jew-haters while denouncing his critics, Netanyahu is betraying Jews wholesale. Musk is only the latest, dangerous example, but welcoming him to Israel in the middle of the Gaza war is particularly odious

One by one, Netanyahu and his courtiers have reached out to some of the world’s most prominent Jew-haters, offering them absolution for their sins and Israel’s official license to carry on. By taking Musk to the scene of the Hamas massacres, he is also expropriating Jewish suffering to whitewash his antisemitism and his promotion of other antisemites on his website.

“I’ll overlook your hatred of the Jews if you bond with me on the basis of our mutual authoritarianism and racism,” is their message. And it has led to close ties with a vile club of the world’s most notorious antisemites including Putin, Orban, Musk, Erdogan, Trump and others.

That’s… pretty foul. And though there’s no recent poll, Biden is almost certainly more popular in Israel than Netanyahu, giving the WH some leverage over the embattled Israeli PM. That leverage will be needed in the coming weeks.