Harrison Ford says Indiana Jones would 'get in the first punch' if he saw Nazis in real life today: 'As well he should'

Hollywood icon, back slugging fascist foes in "Dial of Destiny," leaves no doubt where where he stands on the "punch a Nazi" debate.

“Is It OK to Punch a Nazi?” begged a New York Times headline in January 2017. It’s “the new national debate,” Salon claimed.

Richard Spencer, a well-known neo-Nazi far-right leader, had just been punched in the face during an interview in the swirl of Washington, D.C., protests and celebrations following the inauguration of Donald Trump, and the discourse was raging on social media. Assault and violence is wrong, many argued, but are there exceptions when confronted by the presence of someone whose ideals historically embody that much evil?

“Punch a Nazi” memes ran rampant — arguably the most shared featured a famous image of cinematic swashbuckler Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) towering over a Nazi soldier, fist raised, about to clock the daylights out of him, in 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

“What would Indiana Jones do?” academics pondered.

We now have a definitive answer from the man in the fedora himself.

“He’d push [other people] out of the way to get in the first punch,” Ford told us during an interview for his fifth and final film in the franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, where he was joined by director James Mangold.

“As well he should,” Ford adds, making no secret of his own feelings of IRL Nazi-slugging.

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