Journalists reporting on the Israeli assault on Gaza for The New York Times have been directed to limit the use of the word “genocide”, an internal memo shows. News site The Intercept reported on Monday that it had acquired a copy of the memo, which tells journalists to reserve the name “Palestine” for “very rare cases”. The document “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October”. A newsroom source quoted by The Intercept said the memo was the “kind of thing that looks professional and logical if you have no knowledge of the…