Despite killing nearly 40,000 Palestinians, Israel justifies its war on Gaza as self-defence. It describes critics - including the International Criminal Court - as anti-semitic.
So what drives these narratives? And do they help sustain a continuous cycle of violence against the Palestinian people?
Presenter: Elizabeth Puranam
Guests: Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss is an activist and spokesman of Neturei Karta, a religious sect of Haredi Jews.
David Miller a former professor of political sociology at Bristol University in the UK - whose dismissal after unfounded anti-semitism allegations was ruled unlawful.
Muhannad Ayyash - Professor at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada and a policy analyst for the Palestinian Policy Network.