Israel’s actions in Gaza are not genocide, says UK’s chief rabbi

Sir Ephraim Mirvis says use of the term is moral inversion designed to tear open the still gaping wound of the Holocaust'

The chief rabbi has said using the word genocide" to describe Israel's actions in Gaza is an increasingly frequent, disingenuous misappropriation of the term".

Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the use of the term was a moral inversion, which undermines the memory of the worst crimes in human history" and was designed to tear open the still gaping wound of the Holocaust".