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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 45 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 46 points 5 days 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.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Come on, we're all thinking it: could also be that the student likes the thought of exterminating people. Maybe we just found a really honest zionist. How many videos have we all seen of Israelis jumping up and down and partying when they hear of their military's war crimes?

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

More like they deminish it so its not a big deal so they can execute Holocaust 2.0 Palestinian Boogaloo.

could be a coping mechanism

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

[-] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 27 points 5 days ago

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.

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

[-] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 5 points 4 days ago

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

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

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 23 hours ago

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 1 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago

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.

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 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 23 hours ago

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 1 points 22 hours ago

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 18 hours ago

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 5 hours ago

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.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Fun fact Israelis in large part are not and were not German Jewish immigrants from WW2 and in fact there was a large vocal cadre of actual Holocaust survivors that weren't and aren't in favor of Israel as a country created in the mandate of Palestine in large part because of the whole terrorism and murdering Muslims thing.

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