Ep. 219: Can Israel Beat the World’s Biggest Smear Campaign?

About this episode

Jonathan Tobin discusses the myths surrounding Israel with Judge Roy Altman, who addresses major accusations against the Jewish state in his new book.

Israel has been put on trial every day throughout its history. But according to JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin, the case against it—including blood libels about it committing “genocide” or being an “apartheid state”—are nothing but myths and lies that can be systematically exposed and refuted by simple research and legal logic. He’s joined on this week’s episode of Think Twice by federal Judge Roy Altman, who has written a book that does exactly that. Altman, who serves on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida is the author of the new book Israel on Trial: Examining The History, the Evidence and the Law. In it he goes about the task of exploring each of six major accusations against the Jewish state: That Jews are colonists in the Land of Israel; That Israel’s founding was illegitimate or aberrational; That Israel has prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state; That Israel was occupying Gaza (and had turned Gaza into an open-air prison or a concentration camp) before October 7; That Israel is an apartheid or white-supremacist state; and that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. All are false. The judge says he was motivated to write…

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Tobin

Guest: Roy Altman

Topics covered

• Israel
• smear campaigns
• legal logic
• genocide accusations
• apartheid state
• Palestinian state

Keywords

• Israel
• smear campaign
• Judge Roy Altman
• genocide
• apartheid
• Palestinian state
• October 7
• legal evidence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JNS

Books & works: Israel on Trial: Examining The History, the Evidence and the Law

Places: Israel, Gaza, United States

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