Male model Qaher Harhash said he received a controversial private message on Instagram allegedly from Vanessa Perilman, Zara’s head designer for the women’s department, in which she expressed frustration over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

She then reportedly said: “Maybe if your people were educated, then they wouldn’t blow up hospitals and schools that Israel helped to pay for in Gaza.”

Perilman allegedly added: “Also I think it’s funny that [you’re] a model because in reality that is against what the Muslim faith believes in and if you were to come out of the closet in any Muslim country you would be stoned to death.”

Harhash posted screenshots of their conversation on Instagram, and social media users soon started sharing the hashtags “BoycottZara” and “ZaraMustApologize” and condemning the brand for Islamophobia.

He soon posted screenshots of a follow-up conversation, in which Perilman expressed her apologies after becoming concerned about the prospect of losing her job and the safety of her children.

“Why would you want to post something about me and my job?” she reportedly texted Harhash. “That’s so weird. Someone just wrote me in Arabic saying they will find me and murder my kids.”

She continued: “It’s just so many people have been super mean at work and saying terrible things about Jews that i took it out on you and I feel really really bad.”

In numerous separate messages, Perilman wrote, “I feel so bad” and “this is not who I am.”

The last message she wrote to the model said: “If you want to keep your posts of me on your stories, that is your right but just know, I am literally getting death threats about my children now.”

The designer reportedly deleted all of her social media accounts following the conversation. Harhash took to Instagram to say that Zara had asked him to share Perilman’s apology publicly, which he refused to do.

“If Zara wants to make a statement with me, they also need to address Islamophobia. When certain fashion designers said anti-Semitic things, they were fired from their jobs.” He added, “So far, Vanessa Perilman hasn’t been fired.”

Harhash added: “For me an apology means to fully acknowledge the pain or suffering you caused someone. She came into my DM’s wrote hateful comments, why should I accept a half assed apology?”

Twitter users have since been calling for a response from Zara, which has yet to release an official statement on the matter. One user wrote: “Hi @ZARA , we wont stay silent about your head designer attacking Palestinian model for supporting #FreePalestine, instigating hate & vowing to defend Israeli crimes in #Palestine #Gaza, showing disgusting racism, Islamophobia & anti Palestinianism. Take action or #BoycottZara.”

Another tweeted: “Apology accepted? She spewed some real racist and Islamophobic venom there. Brushing it off as ‘misunderstanding’ is unacceptable, and equally racist on @zarausa|’s part.”

A spokesperson from Inditex, Zara’s parent company, told Newsweek: “Zara does not accept any lack of respect to any culture, religion, country, race or belief. Zara is a diverse company and we shall never tolerate discrimination of any kind. We condemn these comments that do not reflect our core values of respect for one another, and we regret the offense that they have caused. As a diverse and multicultural company, we are committed to ensuring an equitable and inclusive environment as part of our Company values.”

Updated 4:14 PM ET, with a comment from Inditex.