Israel’s ambassador in Berlin has criticised a “shameful” far-right politician he has accused of dancing on the country’s Holocaust memorial.

Ambassador Ron Prosor retweeted an image of Holger Winterstein, a member of the Alternative for Germany party, standing on one of the stone slabs of the memorial with his arms outstretched.

Mr Prosor wrote in his tweet in German: “Mr. Winterstein, everyone is watching you dance while you bring shame on yourself and your party.

“Enjoy your shameful minute of fame because your name will soon be forgotten.

“The sanctified souls commemorated at the memorial will never be forgotten.”

The memorial in the German capital is a reminder of the more than six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust during the Second World War.

Mr Prosor is from Israel which is the nation state of the Jewish people.

German media reported that the picture was taken after a protest organised on Saturday by Alternative for Germany.

The far-right party, known by its German acronym AfD, said it would take action against Mr Winterstein over his “extremely disrespectful behaviour”.

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Mr Winterstein is a county representative in Thuringia.

In 2018, the party’s leader in the state, Bjoern Hoecke, called the Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame” and called for Germany to perform a “180-degree turn” when it comes to the way it remembers its past.

A party tribunal at the time rejected a bid to have him expelled.

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