Liberals and leftists have now embraced Judeophobia—note how they’re chanting “from the river to the sea”—so this should hardly be surprising.
I don’t think it’s was a conscious Nazi usage. Rather, I think it more likely the staffer was a typical ignorant product of public schools. If the name had been Hitler, he or she would have recognized it, but other than the name the person k owes nothing of the Nazi regime, and certainly not enough to recognize the name of any other of the leaders