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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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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 week ago (22 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 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

could be a coping mechanism

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

[–] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s not that deep. Lots of teenagers do edgy stuff just because it’s edgy and not allowed.

He’ll look back in 10 years cringing about himself.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

zionists do not regret being nazis. they just do more nazi shit.

[–] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The world is not that black and white my dude, go outside sometimes

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

sure, yeah, im sure there's an oskar schindler or something among them, but nazis are, generally speaking nazis.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Touch grass, man. When people call zionists nazis, they mean they are genocidal ethno(-religious) fascists. They don't literally mean they speak german, sport swastikas, heil hitler, and hate jews. Zionists despise literal nazis. I can't believe this actually has to be explained.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

they don't tend to speak german at a higher rate than the general population, that part is true. many prefer a burning cross or killing star to a swastika, that's true. the ones that aren't also old fashioned nazis, which are increasingly common.

the rest of what you're saying is bullshit. the current head zio is a literal hitler apologist. look outside before asking me to touch grass, please.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hm, Netenyahu saying palestinians made the nazis into the nazis we know today doesn't seem like nazi apologism, it sounds like more anti-palestinian propaganda to me.

oh, so it's okay when he does "hitler wasn't such a bad guy, really, just a little misguided".

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It’s not that deep. Lots of teenagers do edgy stuff just because it’s edgy and not allowed.

Thank goodness we can arrest them for it. Imagine the objective harm & deprivation of rights or peaceful access to opportunities or resources that teenage edginess causes to society. Right?

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It makes sense, essentially by remaining oblivious and reductive about one act you can then allow yourself to also be blind to your own current amoral actions. Essentially it's easier to stay dense than it is to actually face the reality you are a part of.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

no. No I think they know what side of that conflict they would have been on. because it's the side their ancestors were on-literally, look at what the zionists were doing during the run-up to world war two. it's so bad. then look at how they treated holocaust survivors after. also not great.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I think most teenagers are not nearly so self-aware. Most people see things as in-group/out-group, simple as that. Doing a nazi salute was probably meant as am (ignorant) way to defy authority; teen most likely was not thinking about palestine at all.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's not defying authority, and you're thinking of american teens. zios absolutely do. they sing songs about killing them in school as young children. this is not a defiance of authority, it's perfectly acceptable in that culture. expected, even.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No -- nazi salutes are not acceptable in Israeli culture. Nazi salutes are the ultimate anti-semitic gesture. Why would those be "expected"?

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you just said why. also, I'm pretty sure saying "from the river to the sea, palestine will be free" is the ultimate antisemitic gesture.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that's an antizionist gesture. Some fascists like to pretend antisemitism = antizionism.

yes, if you want to fuck around with nonsense like 'truth' but legally it's antisemitism.

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