“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.

Protestors projected an image of billionaire Elon Musk giving what has been widely called a Nazi salute onto Musk’s Tesla Gigafactory factory in Berlin, Germany. The image was accompanied by the words “Heil Tesla,” according to Newsweek.

"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 debate over Musk’s latest move has added fuel to other ongoing feuds, too.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit focused on combating antisemitism, defended tech billionaire Elon Musk’s “awkward” gesture during a Monday celebratory event which some critics panned

Elon Musk responds to the criticism over his one-armed gesture during Trump's inauguration which sparked controversy.

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

The Tesla factory in Germany, one of the biggest foreign investments in German manufacturing in years and the company’s only European plant, has frequently been the site of protests.

Political activists in Germany said yesterday they had projected an image of Elon Musk’s infamous raised-arm salute and the word “Heil” onto the outside