A minor Thai royal has posted on Facebook that Hitler was a genius whom Jewish bankers and Zionists destroyed, DPA reported Thursday.

Rungguna Kitiyakara, 46, a descendant of 19 th century King Rama V and a distant cousin of Queen Sirikit, also wrote that the Holocaust had never occurred, and was only "propaganda" designed to elicit sympathy for Jewish actions against Palestinians.

The post drew a protest from Simon Roded, Israel's ambassador to Thailand, who expressed "disappointment and regret" over Kitiyakara's post, saying it was "a shame that someone with such opportunity, and education would perpetuate a myth that history has proven false."

In December, a propaganda video produced by Thailand's ruling junta was condemned by the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok for including a scene of a schoolboy painting an image of Hitler. The clip was commissioned to promote the "12 core values" every Thai student should learn.