Israel's embassy in Dublin tweeted this week a photograph of the Mona Lisa wearing a hijab and holding a rocket, with the words "Israel now, Paris later" – a reference to the terrorist attacks in the French capital.

The tweet – which has since been deleted - said "Don't say we didn't warn you."

This is not the first gaffe to have come out of the Israeli embassy in

Ireland. In August 2013, the embassy suggested in a Facebook and Twitter post that Adolf Hitler would be happy with the United Nations, which it described as “a tool against Israel.”

In December 2012, ahead of the Christmas holiday, the embassy posted an image of the Virgin Mary on its Facebook page, accompanied by the caption: "Athought for Christmas... If Jesus and mother Mary were alive today, they would, as Jews without security, probably end up being lynched in Bethlehem by hostile Palestinians. Just a thought...."