Elon Musk is REPLACED by John Kerry in APEC CEO Summit session due to 'scheduling clash' - a day after he was branded 'the world's richest bigot' after agreeing with anti-Semitic post

Elon Musk has been taken off the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO speaker schedule and was replaced with John Kerry after a scheduling clash.

The Tesla founder was meant to be speaking at 4.45pm in San Francisco on a panel about AI and the future - but Musk's name was removed from the docket. 

This is because Musk had a schedule change which stopped him from attending in person. He offered to give the speech online, but the APEC declined. 

APEC's meeting is a high-profile summit of 21 countries, expected to bring as many as 30,000 people to the Bay Area this week, including China's President Xi Jinping.

APEC CEO Summit 2023 said in a statement: 'The session, “A Summit Spotlight 1:1 Conversation on AI and the Future,” will now feature Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce, in conversation with John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. 

'Elon Musk had a schedule change that prevented him from joining the APEC CEO Summit 2023. 

'We’re thankful for his offer to join the session remotely, however it was agreed among all speakers that participation would be in person. 

'We look forward to Elon joining us at a future APEC CEO Summit.'

On Wednesday, Elon Musk backtracked on his earlier endorsement of an antisemitic post, clarifying that calls for 'a Jewish genocide' were 'unacceptable to any reasonable person.'

But he then resuming his long-running series of attacks on the antisemitism watchdog ADL.

Musk was accused on Wednesday afternoon of promoting antisemitism after replying to a racist post with the comment: 'You have said the actual truth.'

He then, two hours later, wrote: ''decolonization' necessarily implies a Jewish genocide, thus it is unacceptable to any reasonable person.'

Musk, who has been strongly criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and Israel's Foreign Ministry for his past remarks, then attacked the ADL, accusing them of racism.

'And, at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL's messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind,' he said.

'I'm sick of it. Stop now.'

Musk sparked the firestorm on Wednesday by responding to a man who posted a screed on X criticizing a Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism campaign video.

In the video, a father is seen talking to his son about the online hatred the son has spewed, and calling him out for his rhetoric.

The X user dismissed the video, writing: 'Jewish communties (sic) have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. 

'I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest s*** now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much. 

'You want truth said to your face, there it is.'

Musk, who has 163 million followers, replied: 'You have said the actual truth.'