Pete Buttigieg is under fire for an Instagram photo of him posing at the Berlin Holocaust memorial

• South Bend Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is facing criticism for posing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany, in a 2017 Instagram photo that resurfaced over the weekend.
• Chasten Buttigieg posted an April 2017 photo of his husband walking through the memorial with the caption, "This guy." 
• Reporters and critics on both the right and the left called the photo insensitive and inappropriate as it made the rounds online.
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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is facing criticism for posing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany, in a 2017 Instagram photo that resurfaced over the weekend.

Chasten Buttigieg posted the April 2017 photo of his husband walking through the memorial with the caption, "This guy." 

The visually arresting memorial, which features rows of large stone blocks, is a major tourist attraction in Berlin and has become the subject of much controversial behavior, including social media posts and selfies, since it opened to the public in 2005.

Many Jewish advocates and others have condemned those who use the Holocaust memorial as a photo opportunity. Shahak Shapira, an Israeli comedian living in Germany, started a campaign in recent years to shame those who take selfies there. 

Reporters and critics on both the right and the left called the photo insensitive and inappropriate as it made the rounds online.

"Mayor Pete Was Totally 'That Guy' Posing At Holocaust Memorial," read a headline on The Forward, a Jewish-American news site. 

Buttigieg is currently polling well among the 2020 Democratic field in Iowa. His campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.