San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Park simply posed for a photo with a comedian friend, and for that an international Jewish human rights organization wants the basketball player to issue a public apology. Turned out, Parker displayed a pose that is related to another gesture popularized by Nazis.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on the 31-year old NBA player to apologize for making the reverse salute, which resembles the Nazi Heil Hitler salute, during a photo op with comedian Dieudonne Mbala-Mbala.

"As a leading sports figure on both sides of the Atlantic, Parker has a special moral obligation to disassociate himself from a gesture that the government of France has identified as anti-Semitic," the center's associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper told Fox News.

"It's the Nazi salute in reverse."

Parker is yet to speak about the matter but his companion on the photo, Mbala, seems to be the center of the controversy. The comedian is known in the European country for inventing the quenelle, a rapidly spreading signal among anti-Semites in Europe. This is used by individuals to do anti-hate speech laws in parts of the continent without being noticed by the government. He is also believed to be the person behind the word "Shoananas" which is a code that suggests Holocaust is a myth without breaking France's laws against denying the genocide.

France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls has already issued measures that will ban Mbala's from appearing to the public.

"Despite his conviction for defamation, causing offense and inciting racial hatred and discrimination, Dieudonne M'bala M'bala doesn't seem to recognize any limits any more," Minister Manuel Valls said in a statement.

In England, Frenchman Nicolas Anelka of the West Bromwich Albion is also in hot water for doing a gesture similar to what Parker did while celebrating a goal he made. The soccer player is now facing charges and possible suspension.