But when Israel came under a barrage of accusations after October 7, the American federal judge found himself asking a different question: what would happen if those claims were subjected to the same kind of scrutiny?

And the result is Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence and the Law (Simon & Schuster, £25).

The book sees Judge Altman examine six allegations levied at Israel through legal methodology:

* Jews are colonists in the Land of Israel
* The founding of the State of Israel was illegitimate
* Israel has prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state
* Israel was occupying Gaza on October 7
* Israel had turned Gaza into an open-air prison and committed genocide in Gaza
* Israel is an apartheid state

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