This exceptional work of logic, history, law, and geopolitics presents the essential facts about Israel while showing readers how to think and reason about them with clarity and rigor.

SYNOPSIS

Since Octo­ber 7, Roy Alt­man has giv­en hun­dreds of speech­es about Israel at church­es, syn­a­gogues, col­leges, law schools, and com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters around the coun­try. These hun­dreds of con­ver­sa­tions have shown him that the con­tem­po­rary debate in Amer­i­ca today cen­ters around six claims Israel’s adver­saries have advanced about the Jew­ish State: geno­cide, occu­pa­tion, apartheid, etc. And what’s most inter­est­ing about these claims is that they’re all actu­al­ly legal in nature. In Israel On Tri­al, Alt­man removes emo­tion, vit­ri­ol, and rhetoric from these dis­cus­sions and applies the same judi­cial method­ol­o­gy he uses in his court­room — a time-test­ed method­ol­o­gy judges and lawyers have been apply­ing to legal claims in court­rooms across the coun­try for 250 years — to each of these six claims. Each claim gets its own chap­ter and ends with a ver­dict that will show read­ers, using rea­son and com­mon sense, not only that each claim is false as a mat­ter of law, but also the extent to which the claims have been manip­u­lat­ed to min­i­mize Jew­ish suf­fer­ing and to prey on deeply held prej­u­dices about Jews.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Roy K. Altman is a United States District Judge and a nationally recognized voice whose work brings clarity and rigor to some of the most complicated legal questions facing society today. A graduate of Yale Law School and former editor of the Yale Law Journal, he is an award-winning writer and commentator whose work on the rule of law, Israel, antisemitism, and the American legal order has appeared in leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, National Review, RealClearPolitics, Quillette, and the Miami Herald. Before taking the bench, Altman served as a decorated federal prosecutor, earning the Department of Justice's highest honor twice and being named Federal Prosecutor of the Year. He later became the youngest partner at a prestigious litigation firm, representing clients in some of the world's most high-profile cases. He is the author of Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law.