Nesreen Hajjaj, an Arab Muslim guide at the Anne Frank Center in Berlin has been telling visitors that the Jewish genocide at the hands of the Nazis in World War II is comparable to what Arab Muslims are suffering at the hands of the Israelis today.

INN (h/t Marice) Hajjaj is one of 25 freelance guides who introduces visitors to the exhibition at the Anne Frank Zentrum Berlin. Hajjaj is one of 25 freelance guides who introduces visitors to the exhibition at the Anne Frank Zentrum Berlin.

Hajjaj told the interviewer that “many things that happened to the Jews during the Nazi rule are happening to the Palestinians now. Jewish people were kicked out of their homes and denied an education. Today Palestinian lands and houses are being conquered,” she told the online publication. She said she had been called an “infidel and a hypocrite” on social media for taking the job with the center.

Patrick Siegele, director of the Anne Frank Zentrum, told JTA that Hajjaj’s comparison as stated in the Al Arabiya article was “incorrect and painful … and does not reflect the official position of the Anne Frank Zentrum. Furthermore, the Anne Frank Zentrum distances itself from this position.”

He said his staff would discuss the issue with Hajjaj and others who bring guests through the exhibit in central Berlin, which deals with the history of Anne Frank and the Holocaust, as well as current anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination.

Elke Gryglewski, too, recently had to speak with guides at the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, where she is director of education. The memorial is located in the villa where chief Nazis coordinated plans to exterminate European Jewry in 1942.