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Sure but Musk has visibly endorsed Woods' comments, even if those were constrained to the topic of ADL and not joos generally.
As for the defamation law, I mean specifically Musk's threat to sue the ADL. It'll probably not happen, but then he'll just have to lick his wounds and accept X never becoming profitable. This would of course be a massive, massive win for Greenblatt – the world's richest man gets cold feet after briefly daring to go against his libel.
Oh yeah, for sure, I didn’t mean to suggest that Musk would scalp Greenblatt by literally winning against the ADL in court. That’s unlikely for the same reason I described. But Musk doesn’t follow through on 99% of his ideas and I expect that much like he listened to his trainers that he would definitely lose against Zuck in a fight, he’ll listen to his lawyers that he would definitely lose in a lawsuit against the ADL for first amendment reasons.
I mean that if he keeps making this much drama, and can get a few powerful Jews on his side (including Bibi, and obviously plenty of Jews on the right aren’t particularly fans of the ADL since Foxman left and it became more overtly progressive) then the board is liable to remove him. Foxman is writing op-eds criticizing Biden for not inviting Bibi to the White House now. Greenblatt is now directly criticizing the Israeli government in a way the organization specifically resisted for a very long time.
You don’t stay in that job for ten years without making a lot of enemies, there are also people want to get rid of Greenblatt for much more mundane reasons than that he’s increasing antisemitism. He doesn’t have Hoover-tier control of the institution.
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