“Last night we were up on the Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin, the main European manufacturing site of Elon Musk’s car business,” the group wrote in an email to supporters on Thursday. “It’s the company that makes him the world’s richest man, money he is increasingly using to boost the far-right across Europe.”

Calling Elon Musk a great friend of Israel, Netanyahu, in a post on X, said that the Tesla CEO is being “falsely smeared”.

Online users shared videos showing Musk twice extending his hand outward from his heart but omitted his words explaining the gesture.

"I’m ending my lease two months early. When the Tesla rep asked why I’m not considering another Tesla, I said I’m sick of being associated with Elon."

The two groups are Led By Donkeys from the UK and the Center for Political Beauty from Germany. The pair teamed up and projected Musk’s gesture with the word “Heil” onto Tesla Giga Berlin. The resulting image appears to show Musk on the left side of the building and the signage reads “Heil Tesla” in the car company’s signature font.

Left-wing activists have projected a giant image of Elon Musk doing a gesture that has been likened to a Nazi salute alongside the word “heil” on to Tesla’s Berlin factory.

Given Musk’s actions on Monday, it may be time to rethink how we engage with the platform,’ one subreddit’s moderators wrote after Musk’s inauguration apperance

Errol Musk laughed and defended his son against allegations of making a Nazi salute, calling the accusation “absolute nonsense” and “rubbish.”

The British arm of the German brand says it’s no longer posting on Musk's X platform but will remain active on Facebook and Instagram

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday defended Tesla and SpaceX CEO, amid the controversy over Elon Musk making a Nazi salute earlier this week. Tesla CEO has been accused of delivering Nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration rally of US President Donald Trump.

Netanyahu pointed to Musk’s visiting Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack and advocating for what he said was “Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”