For instance, if Tucker Carlson accepted the reality of India as a state, would Beddoes argue that this made Carlson, by definition, an Indian nationalist? But as Siegel himself writes in his New Statesman article, the “right to exist” applies only to a “justly governed nation”. Historically, Israel’s right to exist was established through the violent denial of Palestine’s right to exist. There was a time when the question, does a Palestinian state have the right to exist, had some small traction. When the British government announced that it was going to formally recognise a Palestinian state, The Economist was wholly against it.

Source: The Telegraph March 29, 2026 13:23 UTC