President Michael D. Higgins allegedly “politicised” yesterday’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration in Dublin, according to Israeli Ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich, reports RTE. Ms. Erlich said in a social media message that President Higgins’ remarks had “predictably” chastised the state of Israel.

Israeli Ambassador to Ireland Dana Erlich has accused the Irish president of "politicising" a Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration in Dublin on Sunday. The event marked 80 years since the end of World War II and was held to remember victims of the Holocaust.

Ireland’s president has been branded “despicable” and accused of spewing “anti-Semitic lies” after he used a Holocaust memorial speech to highlight the plight of Gazans.