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Describing Israel-Gaza war as ‘genocide’ trivialises term, says UK Chief Rabbi

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”.

Describing Israel-Gaza war as ‘genocide’ trivialises term, says UK Chief Rabbihttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/10/israel-gaza-war-genocide-trivialises-term-chief-rabbi/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_genocide-trivialises-term-chief-rabbi%2FOpen linkView original on lemmy.ml

“The clearest evidence that Israel did not intend to destroy the people of Gaza is that it did not in fact do so.”

So Hitler did not intend to kill all the Jews, Roma, Gays, Trans, socialists, soviets etc. because he failed to do so

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You know you're on the wrong side when you have to resort to mental gymnastics to defend something.

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You know you levelled up as a Rabbi when your argument boils down to “The Holocaust wasn’t genocide because Hitler didn’t catch them all”.

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Just because a county purports to share your religon, doesn't mean you have to white knight for them murdering thousands of babies

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Hush we really do not need rabbis encouraging Israeli nternment camps to add gas chambers.

As ATM that is all Israel is missing.

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