What prompted the row was the forthcoming trip this week by Magdalena, 18, with her class from music school, to Fossoli near Modena to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Fossoli was one of very few prison camps in Italy where Jews were held before transit by train to the Nazi extermination camps. I was hoping that a visit to Fossoli might at least change Magdalena’s understanding of what the word ‘genocide’ actually means. Obviously, however brutal and possibly criminal that is, it is not genocide, because the intention is to exterminate Hamas, not the Palestinians. But what happened at Fossoli was genocide: Jews were brought there as part of a plan to exterminate them.