Israel’s main Holocaust museum on Sunday categorically rejected claims that Israel was perpetrating genocide as “dangerous distortions” of historical truth that “desecrate the memory of the victims” of the Nazi genocide.

An honorary chairman of the board of the executive of Germany’s Friends of Yad Vashem association, Stephan-Andreas Casdorff, had suggested last week that because of the Nazi genocide, modern Germany should stop sending weapons to Israel.

Yad Vashem, one of the world’s most prestigious and acclaimed institutions in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies, distanced itself from his remarks following a query from JNS, and a prominent leader of European Jewry, the CEO of the Conference of European Rabbis, suggested that Casdorff was unfit to carry out a role within Yad Vashem.