“These [genocide] are quite properly legal terms that must be determined by international courts… Those terms were largely used when millions of people lost their lives in crises like Rwanda, the Second World War and the Holocaust, and the way that they are used now undermines the seriousness of that term.” These were the words of Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Parliament on Monday when asked by a Conservative MP whether he would affirm that there is “not a genocide occurring in the Middle East” and that the use of this terminology is “completely inappropriate”. In choosing to respond this w…