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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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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Sosemira@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

Fuck Israel

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

/s

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago (3 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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months 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.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not going to give some asshat teenager the same level of shit as Elon. It's a hell of a lot more likely in that context that he really was kidding, just distastefully.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For real... we are dealing with an edgy teenager here. Put away the torches people

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You could be referring to either of them

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

if I was talking about Elon I'd have you ready the guillotine instead of putting away torches

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s €376.10, not nearly enough imo.

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

its around $23000 here in Victoria, Australia

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 0 points 9 months ago (1 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!!!

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 0 points 9 months 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months 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.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months 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

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