The US Army has suspended an officer who posted a video making a Holocaust joke to his more than 3 million subscribers on the video-sharing social-networking service TikTok.
"What's a Jewish person's favorite Pokémon character?" asks US Army 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer, followed by a laugh.
"Ash," he answers, referring to Ash Ketchum, the protagonist in the anime, and the remains of Jews who were gassed and cremated during the Holocaust in death and concentration camps.
On Monday, the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division posted on Twitter that it was investigating the "vile remarks" and that they were "not indicative of the values we live by, and there is no place for racism or bigotry in our Army or our country."
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
