Roth criticized Israel during the 2008-2009 Gaza War alongside other NGOs, including Amnesty International, Christian Aid, HaMoked, Yesh Din, and others. Anne Herzberg, legal advisor to NGO Monitor, said that Roth was a notable public face for these organizations in arguing that Israel perpetrated war crimes. Herzberg said that Roth distorted a quote made by Israel's foreign Minister Tsipi Livni in his arguments. Herzberg said that Roth uses this quote to argue that indiscriminate killings of Palestinian civilians was ordered by the highest ranks of the IDF. Instead, says Herzberg, the full context of this quote showed that Livni was appealing to a common identity between Arabs and Israeli Jews and to an end of racial acrimony.