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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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[-] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Edge Lord asked for that

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 285 points 5 days ago

It wasn't a Nazi salute. It was a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, could be misinterpreted as a Nazi salute. I think we shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions.

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[-] redlemace@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago

Did they drove off in a Tesla ? (asking for a friend)

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[-] Lanske@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Not even knowing (your) history... his parents must be so proud!

[-] FundMECFSResearch 45 points 4 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 4 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 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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 3 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 4 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.

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[-] redlemace@lemmy.world 152 points 5 days ago

I'm stunned .... again !! .... I have visited Auschwitz and it's impressive beyond words. At the entrance of the former gas chambers there is a sign asking to respect and remember those who died in there and keep silent in the chambers. Everyone did except for Israeli students. That is what brought the tears to my eyes. Betrayed and disrespected again, this time by their own.

[-] MordercaSkurwysyn@lemm.ee 94 points 5 days ago

Oh believe me, Israeli trips in Kraków are the worst kind of tourists in every aspect possible. They are louder than British stag parties, more obnoxious than Americans and their favourite thing is crying about antisemitism when they are removed from somewhere for causing disturbances or making a huge mess. They do not understand the idea of rubbish bins and you can trace their paths by following cigarette butts, empty crisps packets and spit.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Israelis are broadly recognized to be some of the worst tourists in the world.

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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

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

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[-] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 80 points 5 days ago

This happens a lot more than you'd think. I experienced something similar in Dachau and the guide told me if someone does something unhinged/disrespectful during a tour there's a 9 out of 10 chance it's a descendant of a holocaust victim. She didn't say why she thought that is but she said it's something that puts the staff on edge whenever there's an Israeli group visiting. I'm surprised they got the cops involved though.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 5 days ago

I wonder how bibi is gonna spin this one into being antisemitism on the side of the people who reported the student.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago

Yes, you are the baddies.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 66 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Dear god I hope eel-on-musk goes to Poland and tries that. He so deserves to find out.

Edit: clarification: I’m saying I want him to be arrested somewhere that’s not the US

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[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.)

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Ben Gvir, Netenyahu, and Smotrich go on tv all the time calling for ethnic cleansing and war crimes. Should that have any bearing on my opinion of Israel?

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Don't really want to engage with an obvious troll, but yeah when the head of state says something like that, it should tell you all you need to know. I've seen idiotic teenagers from all over the world say idiotic things enough to know not to judge a society by their teenagers.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If you want to ignore the obvious thats on you. And if you want to paint my citations of the facts reported in network news as "trolling" then its reality itself that you have a problem with.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

wha? No, I agree with you about Netenyahu etc.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

eh, yeah. I guess I am loathe to excuse a teens misbehavior when it just reinforces the criminality of his government, but broadly speaking I do agree that teens arent capable of understanding their own actions like adults should be. I get the feeling theres a lot of apologists here saying One teen doesnt represent much, and how do we know the teen is even jewish, to try to make the issue go away, and I see a lot of disenganuous arguing by the zionists so I get an itchy finger on that. Anyway, my apologies, your reasoning is sound, if inconvenient.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

My point is that a teen's behaviour doesn't reinforce the criminality of his government, but is mostly orthogonal to it. I can see perhaps there's a monkey-see monkey-do argument that does link a teen's behaviour to his society's, but Israelis are not fond of literal Nazi iconography, so I don't think that applies here.

If you try to use sketchy arguments like this to reinforce your opinions about Zionism, it only opens you to attack. Please, try to keep a level head, or we'll all look stupid. Rather than trying to guess if somebody is an apologist based on the consequence of their argument, maybe check if the premise is sound instead like a rational person.

(Aside: I also disagree with you about teens and self-understanding -- I do think a lot of teenagers are mature and self-aware; my point is that it's a high-variance distribution really.)

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

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.

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[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

That’s €376.10, not nearly enough imo.

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