A tweet sent out by the Jewish Museum of Berlin on Thursday that included a link to an article claiming that a resolution passed by the German parliament last month declaring the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel to be anti-Semitic was not helpful in the battle against anti-Semitism sparked an online backlash, which continued throughout the weekend.
The museum posted a link to an article on the German news site Taz.de, which reported that 240 Israeli and Jewish researchers had spoken out against the anti-BDS measure. The museum, which is publicly funded, added the hashtag #mustread.
Israeli Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff called the museum's tweet "shameful" in a response he posted to his own Twitter page on Saturday.
"The Jewish Museum is supposed to be a cultural body but is highly political when supporting the boycotting of Israel and in effect criticizing the Bundestag for condemning anti-Semitism!" Issacharoff's message read.
On Sunday, the Jewish Museum sent out another tweet in which it said that by tagging the Taz article, the institution had not taken any stand against the Bundestag's anti-BDS resolution.
Last month, the Bundestag passed a German motion stated that "the pattern of argument and methods of the BDS movement are anti-Semitic."
"The campaign's calls to boycott Israeli artists, along with stickers on Israeli goods that are meant to dissuade people from buying them, are also reminiscent of the most terrible phase of German history," the wording of the resolution states.
"The BDS movement's 'Don't Buy' stickers on Israeli products inevitably awake associations with the Nazi slogan 'Don't Buy from Jews!' and similar scrawls on facades and shop windows."
