The Palestinians’ Most Deadly Weapon Against Israel: Altruism

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The Palestinians’ Most Deadly Weapon Against Israel: Altruism

August 21, 2025

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Podcast audio

In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Elan Journo, Nikos Sotirakopoulos, and Tristan De Liège explore how altruism clouds moral clarity about the Israel-Hamas war, undermining Israel’s righteous cause and whitewashing Hamas’ evil.

Among the topics covered:

How the media coverage of the war has become egregiously deferential to Hamas and Hezbollah;
How altruism corrupts journalism by distorting moral judgment;
Why media deception deliberately aims to manipulate emotions;
The nature of Hamas’s totalitarian ideology;
Why genocide claims flout serious thinking about innocents in war;
How altruism cripples Israel’s moral confidence in its cause.

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

This podcast was recorded on August 13, 2025 and posted on August 21, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.

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Ibis Slade

Ibis Slade is a junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute and a content creator. He focuses on American intellectual and moral history.

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