The Injustice of Recognizing a Palestinian State

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The Injustice of Recognizing a Palestinian State

September 29, 2025

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The recognition of a Palestinian state betrays good and rewards evil.

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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent recognition by major Western powers of a Palestinian state — examining who is rewarded and who is punished by this move.

Among the topics covered:

How the recognition of a Palestinian state rewards evil and betrays the good;
Why this recognition denies the reality of Hamas’s nature;
How this endorsement of evil is a manifestation of altruism;
How the appeasement of Hamas empowers its tyranny.

Recommended in this podcast is Elan Journo’s book What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

The podcast was recorded on September 24, 2025, and posted on September 26, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.

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Dan Schwartz

Dan Schwartz, PhD in philosophy and formerly a professor, is a visiting fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute.

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