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Tesla faces boycott in Malaysia over Musk’s support for Trump’s Gaza plan
Tesla faces mounting boycott calls in Malaysia in protest over the support its CEO Elon Musk has shown to US President Donald Trump, who has triggered anger over a controversial plan regarding Gaza, which could displace millions of Palestinians.
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Malaysians pulled no punches on social media in response to Tesla’s launch of its latest Model Y “Juniper” this week, branding it a “swasticar” – a term which emerged in Europe after Musk’s hand gestures during Trump’s inauguration last month, which many perceived as resembling a Nazi salute.
“Not touching this swasticar,” read a comment by Adnan Abdullah to a Facebook post by a local car review site regarding Tuesday’s Model Y launch.
Musk, the world’s richest man, denied the gesture had any such connotations, who said in a post on X that his critics “need better dirty tricks” and called comparisons to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “sooo tired”.
But activists in London pasted stickers with the line “Don’t buy a swasticar” on hundreds of Teslas in the city to raise funds for antifascist causes, according to a Newsweek report.
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