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An Israeli high school student was arrested and questioned by police for doing a Nazi salute during a school trip to Auschwitz, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

The teenager from Kiryat Bialik was on his school's field trip to Poland when he did the gesture under the entrance sign to the camp.

He was questioned for two hours by Polish police and was fined approximately NIS 1,500 after security guards observed him performing the salute. The museum also captured the incident on its security cameras; the footage was handed over to the police.

Polish police charged him with promoting Nazism, local media reported. Performing a seig heil is illegal in Poland, and carries a potential sentence of up to two years in prison.

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[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 50 minutes ago

why is this in 'not the onion'? just nazis being nazis. whose fucking idea was it to take a literal fucking nazi on a tour of auschwitz anyway?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Personally knowing some young Israeli’s.

A lot of them don’t take the holocaust very seriously and tend to joke about it a lot, (maybe it’s a coping mechanism)? In any case, this is probably a case of an edgy high schooler trying to make their friends laugh.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 49 minutes ago

could be a coping mechanism

it's not. it's just a nazi do'in nazi shit.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

Could be a coping mechanism. If they took it seriously they would probably have to reflect about the similarities between the Nazis and Israel.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Fuck around and find out

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Are they sending their youth to teach them how to deal with Palestinians?

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 48 minutes ago

no, they already know that. they can learn from anyone around them. they go to auschwitz to learn the proudest traditions of their people, and why they can never be allowed to fail again.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

No need to put a stupid teenager in prison for a longer time for being stupid, but: A day or two behind bars on top of the fine might have had a better educational effect.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 3 hours ago

Put him in the middle of Gaza with no help and see how funny he finds himself.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He didn't do it on accident and was fully aware of what he was doing and where he was doing it. Lock that scum up I say.

[–] commander@lemmings.world -4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

You must be new to the world or just lacking experience in your adult life.

I guess you've never seen young people support bad guys specifically because it's provocative. They don't know any better and to assume that this kid wants a nazi regime because he did a hitler salute is asinine.

I could see him finding real support now among those who do want a nazi regime because of how he was treated by us. We should be compassionate with these kids instead of trying to beat them into submission.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If they’re doing it to be provocative, then they know exactly what they’re doing and why it’s bad. No sympathy for Nazi supporters or those who make light of Nazi atrocities. This kid deserves the punishment.

[–] commander@lemmings.world -2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

You're free to think that, but I respectfully disagree.

If he kept doing it, sure. But taking him aside and talking to him could be more effective and less damaging than getting the authorities involved and humiliating him to "prove a point."

Show him that we're on the same side. If we treat him like an enemy when he really isn't one, he very well may become one.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Less damaging to whom? To the kid who did a Nazi salute? Sure, definitely. How about to society? Tolerance for Nazis and Nazi symbology only emboldens Nazis and weakens everyone else. Especially in these times when fascists control the most powerful country on Earth.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

This is an idiotic teenager and should have no bearing on your opinion of Israel. (I shouldn't have to say this, but if I don't somebody will m'accuse: please note that I'm not defending Israel.)

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

and should have no bearing on your opinion of Israel

The behavior of people from a place actually should impact your opinion on that place

Had it been an American there'd either be no comment like yours or it would have been massively downvoted, food for thought

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 19 points 11 hours ago

Wow, ya know I've been joking that Israel is full of Jewish Nazis, but..u hh... damn

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 41 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

My grandfather did not fight in World War II for this shit. I hate this reality.

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[–] nthavoc 23 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Stupid fucking parents letting their stupid fucking kids get raised by the stupid fucking internet. I base this solely on just observation in the news about how "funny" nazi shit has become to edgy teenagers now a days. I also base this on the fact that every time an AI has been released to "learn" from the internet, it comes back a shitty hardcore nazi. I get that kids do stupid shit, but they deserve to find out what's in store for them with this edge lord garbage.

I'm ranting like an old person now dammit!!!

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Remember that Pewdiepie arranging, paying for, and posting separate videos of people holding signs saying "Hitler did nothing wrong", and "Death to all Jews" were just jokes bro. To an audience of literally tens of millions of kids.

And people here still Stan for him. I'll take my downvotes now.

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if it was managed by a PR company or what but he really did "retire" at the absolute perfect time to still continue to exist as a positive image to most of the people who used to watch him. I think if he stuck around even a year longer the drama cycle would have hit him hard.

[–] Fluke@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

"Retire"?

He's still a "thing". People were stanning the cunt just last week for installing Linux on his new gaming PC FFS.

This timeline is a fucking crass joke.

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