More than 300 prominent figures from the Arab-British community have signed an open letter calling on UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to apologise and retract his remarks denying Palestinians were facing genocide in Gaza. The open letter, initiated by the British Arab Assembly this week, expressed its “profound condemnation of Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s recent statements which deny classifying the events in Gaza as genocide, despite the extensive destruction affecting civilians there”. The letter said Lammy’s comments “not only belittle the severity of the situation but also disregard in…