The judge who sentenced Elor Azaria, the soldier who shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif in 2016 as he lay unconscious on the ground, called him a “normal” person, because Azaria’s genocidal views were never an aberration in Israeli society.

Phil Weiss and Yakov Hirsch discuss the cultural sources of pro-Israel movements in American politics. Hirsch examines what he calls “hasbara culture” – the ways that a discourse of Jewish victimhood has conquered Jewish, Israeli, and even American political culture.

Palestinian activists, human rights workers, Israeli military, and Jewish settlers have all trained their lens on Israeli state violence—some to contest Israeli military rule, others to consolidate it.

In Hebron last weekend, religious settlers attacked the family of Imad Abu Shamsiyeh, who is famous for filming an Israeli soldier murdering a Palestinian man, and his 1-1/2-year-old grandson was struck in the head with a rock.