When High School Students Form a Human Swastika & Quote Hitler

Here is a profoundly disturbing story.

Last week, eight teenagers attending Branham High School in San Jose, California posed for a picture laying down on the school's football field in the form of a swastika.

If this wasn't bad enough, the picture was posted onto Instagram with a quote from none other than Adolf Hitler.

This can only be interpreted as a call for killing Jews. Period.

Scott Wiener, a California Democratic State Senator, posted on Facebook regarding the incident and stated in part:

The school responded well to this horrific incident. But we need to ask ourselves why these students believed it was ok to do this — not just the swastika but linking it to extermination of Jews due to “international financial Jews.”

Yet some have praised the eight students with one commenter writing, "This gives me faith in the next generation." In which case, it is reasonable to conclude that the parents were fine and dandy with this overt display of anti-Semitism.

Although Branham High may have taken swift action in this instance, it may have contributed to the hateful sentiments as two of its teachers showed students a YouTube video from Al Jazeera English titled "Zionism is not the same as Judaism".

Maya Bronicki, the Director of Education with the Bay Area Jewish Coalition, stated:

If these kids would have received proper training, proper lessons, hopefully this could have been prevented, and that’s what we are hoping that will happen now that, unfortunately, it was visible enough to get the attention of the broader community.

I don't think these kids would have taken to any kind of proper training. Indeed, I suspect this is the act of true believers. And instead of being guided by the elders toward wisdom, they are being praised for their wickedness. At best, the school and the community at large can try to prevent further harm. But the damage has been done.