'Israel on Trial': US Judge Roy K. Altman takes on accusations against the Jewish state – review

In his new book, Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, US District Judge Roy K. Altman scrutinizes six common accusations against Israel using legal methodology. Altman, a former federal prosecutor, forensically examines claims that Jews are colonists, Israel's founding was illegitimate, Israel prevented a Palestinian state, Israel occupied Gaza and made it an "open-air prison," Israel is an apartheid state, and Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

• He argues that Jews lived in the Land of Israel millennia before Islam and that Israel met the Montevideo Convention's criteria for statehood in 1948.
• Altman highlights six instances where Arabs rejected offers for a Palestinian state, demanding a state "from the river to the sea."
• Regarding the "apartheid" claim, he states, "Israel cannot be practicing apartheid by refusing to afford citizenship rights to the citizens of another country."
• He clarifies that genocide requires a specific "intent to destroy" a group, which he demonstrates Israel does not possess, despite tragic civilian casualties in war.

The book aims to provide fact-based rebuttals to anti-Israel narratives for both supporters and uncommitted individuals.