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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 22 points 5 days ago

Edge Lord asked for that

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 6 days ago (4 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.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 9 points 5 days ago

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

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago (9 children)

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 (9 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.

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[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

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

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Sosemira@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 5 days ago

Fuck Israel

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago

Yes, you are the baddies.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 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.)

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

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 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.)

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 28 points 6 days 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 26 points 6 days ago (2 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.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (8 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.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (14 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.

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 16 points 6 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (10 children)

That’s €376.10, not nearly enough imo.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 19 points 6 days ago

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

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Fuck around and find out

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