Netanyahu was responding to a post by the X owner, which read, "The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to the defence of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, who has faced controversy over a gesture he made at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Critics had described the gesture as a Nazi salute, but Netanyahu labelled the claims as a "false smear."