Israel on Trial : Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law

Sponsored by the Dr. Allan and Katherine Schwartzberg Jewish Studies Endowment Fund

Since October 7, Judge Roy Altman has spoken about Israel at churches, synagogues, colleges, law schools, and community centers across the country. In those conversations, he found that today’s debate keeps returning to six claims made against Israel, including genocide, occupation, and apartheid, and that each one is, at its core, a legal claim.

In his New York Times and USA Today bestseller Israel on Trial, Altman sets aside emotion and rhetoric and examines each claim the way he would in his courtroom, using a method lawyers and judges have relied on for 250 years. Each chapter ends with a verdict. Together they show how these claims fail on the law and how they have been used to diminish Jewish suffering and play on long-held prejudices about Jews.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In 2019, Judge Alt­man became the youngest fed­er­al dis­trict court judge in the coun­try — and the youngest fed­er­al judge ever appoint­ed in the South­ern Dis­trict of Flori­da. Alt­man received a BA from Colum­bia, where he played quar­ter­back and pitch­er — earn­ing All-Ivy hon­ors. Alt­man received his JD from Yale Law School, where he was projects edi­tor of the Yale Law Jour­nal. Alt­man clerked for a fed­er­al judge and became a fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor in Mia­mi, where he twice received the DOJ’s high­est nation­al award for a fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor. In 2013, Judge Alt­man was named ​“Fed­er­al Pros­e­cu­tor of the Year” and, in 2014, became a part­ner at Pod­hurst Orseck, where he rep­re­sent­ed the vic­tims of the Malaysian air­plane that dis­ap­peared over the Indi­an Ocean.

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