Spanish Politician Faces Criticism For Tweeting Holocaust Joke

A newly elected Madrid city council member has come under fire after a four-year-old tweet in which he joked about the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust surfaced.

Guillermo Zapata, a member of the left-wing Ahora Madrid party in Spain, tweeted in 2011: “How do you get five million Jews in a (Seat) 600? In the ashtray”.

The “Seat 600″ is apparently alluding to a car.He was joking about the burning of Jews in ovens after they were gassed to death.

Zapata deleted his Twitter account as soon as the old tweet was exposed.