Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar on Monday denounced Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris as an antisemite, speaking a day after Jerusalem announced the closure of its embassy due to Dublin's hostile stances.
"Last night, the prime minister of Ireland, Simon Harris, the antisemite, said in an interview, 'Ireland is not anti-Israel, but Ireland categorically opposes the starvation of children, and opposes categorically the killing of civilians,'" Sa'ar told reporters at a meeting of his New Hope Party.
"Israel starves children? When Jewish children died of hunger in the Holocaust, you were at best neutral in the war against Nazi Germany. Winston Churchill, during the war, in his speech on VE Day noted how Ireland had carried on a love affair with Nazi Germany," Jerusalem's top diplomat said at the party faction meeting in the capital.
"And you call Israeli soldiers war criminals? You accuse the Jewish state, that was attacked on all fronts?" Sa'ar concluded, while highlighting the Israel Defense Forces' efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza.
