The director of Berlin's Jewish Museum has resigned after a row over the museum tweeting an article questioning whether the anti-Israel BDS movement was antisemitic.

The museum sparked controversy by tweeting a link to an article in left-leaning news site Die Tageszeitung, commonly known as taz, on a petition by 240 Jewish and Israeli scholars who criticised the motion.

After a row in which Israel's ambassador to Germany called the museum "shameful", director Peter Schäfer announced he was standing down.

The article the museuem's Twitter promoted reported an open letter, signed by 240 Israeli and Jewish academics, that dismissed a Bundestag motion that branded BDS as antisemitism.

The letter argued argued that boycotts are “a legitimate and non-violent tool of resistance”.

Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council, said: “The Jewish Museum Berlin seems to be completely out of control. Under these circumstances, one has to think about whether the term ‘Jewish’ is still appropriate.”