An Israeli student was arrested and fined for performing a Nazi salute at Auschwitz during a school trip.

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.

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        607·
        3 months ago

        His punishment will be having to join the IDF and killing palestinian babies.

        Nah but nice to see they at least keep up the outward appearance of giving a fuck.

          • Genius@lemmy.zipEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            “Military service teaches young people the values that we as a country believe in. It’s very important to our national identity that every adult citizen has murdered a baby. It makes us who we are.”

      • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        21·
        3 months ago

        Nothings gonna happen to that kid. This is the classic Israeli “We will conduct an investigation” response with zero follow through. They do this to get away with genocide, i’m sure they’ll be able to get away with a “misinterpreted hand gesture.”