UKLFI Charitable Trust invites you to a webinar on Israel on Trial: the History, the Evidence and the Law with Judge Roy Altman, chaired by Natasha Hausdorff on Monday 15 June at 5pm UK time, (7pm Israel, 6pm Europe, noon ET).
- How to evaluate modern political claims using legal reasoning
- Why historical evidence still matters in present-day discourse
- What international law actually says about occupation, apartheid, and genocide
- How antisemitic tropes have evolved into mainstream talking points
- A framework for intellectual integrity in an age of ideological warfare
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More about the speakers:
Roy K. Altman is an experienced United States District Judge and also a writer and commentator, whose work on the rule of law, Israel and antisemitism, and on the American legal order has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The National Review, RealClear Politics, Quillette, and the Miami Herald. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Before taking the bench, Altman served as a federal prosecutor trying complex cases involving international crime and human trafficking. He twice received the Department of Justice’s highest honor and was also named Federal Prosecutor of the Year. Later, as the youngest partner at a prestigious litigation firm, Altman represented clients in high profile cases including families of those killed in the Malaysian jet that disappeared over the Indian Ocean. His writing draws on that experience to confront the widespread misapplication of international law to Israel.
Natasha Hausdorff is a barrister at 6 Pump Court Chambers and a frequent speaker on International Law. She has a law degree from Oxford University, qualified as a solicitor at Skadden, and subsequently gained an LLM from Tel Aviv University, focussing on public international law and the law of armed conflict. She clerked for Miriam Naor, President of Israel’s Supreme Court, and was a fellow at Columbia Law School’s National Security programme. Natasha is legal director of UKLFI Charitable Trust.
Natasha’s work explaining legal issues relating to Israel has been recognised by the American Jewish Committee’s award for moral courage and by the honour of lighting one of the torches on Har Herzl to mark Israel’s Independence Day.