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 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”. Earlier this month the UN international court of justice in The Hague heard that Israel has shown “chilling” and “incontrovertible” intent to commit genocide in Gaza. South Africa, which has brought the case, alleged “grave violence and genocidal acts” by the country....