Describing the Israel-Gaza war as “genocide” trivialises the concept, the Chief Rabbi has said.
Sir Ephraim Mirvis said “the race to linguistic escalation has consequences”, adding that accusing Israel of committing genocide went against “the very idea of human rights itself” and reduced “humanity’s gravest crime to a political insult”.
You know you’re on the wrong side when you have to resort to mental gymnastics to defend something.