The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to lawyer who accused Israel of genocide
Of course. No surprise there. The Orwellian reversal is not a new phenomenon:
The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, who presided over a commission that declared that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for what the committee described as her efforts to promote peace and international law.
Her win is sure to be seen as a stinging, high-profile rebuke to US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of a UN commission she led that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Both leaders also have been highly critical of the institutions where Pillay has worked, with Israel previously accusing her of being a “Hamas proxy” with a long history of vehemently anti-Israeli and antisemitic positions.
“Stinging, high-profile rebuke”? Hardly. Neither Trump nor Netanyahu – nor I, nor probably you – give the Nobel Prize Committee or the UN any credence or respect. The Prize about as meaningful these days as anything else the UN does (or as meaningful as another Trump impeachment, which will happen if Democrats win control of the House in the coming election). Only the left cares about this sort of thing, and only to them it’s a “high-profile rebuke” to the nefarious Trump and Netanyahu and Israel.
However, on a certain level it still shocks me – although it should not – that so much of the world believes this sort of thing to be the height of virtue. How can they not recognize the absurdity of the assertion that Israel is committing genocide? And yet I’m sure that most of the people I know would probably nod right along – people with advanced degrees in this or that or the other thing.
It is a puzzlement to me how people can buy into the most transparently stupid – and actually evil – belief systems without questioning them. And yet, here we are.
Neo: “… give the Nobel Prize Committee or the UN any credence or respect.”
Doubtless you meant, … give the Nobel Peace Prize Committee …
Physics and Chemistry prizes are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Physiology / Medicine prize is selected by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.
The Peace Prize is selected by a Committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/the-nobel-prize-organisation/prize-awarding-institutions/
At least Obama stopped the seas from rising and parted the waters!!
This committee awarded President Obama the peace prize about 8 months into his first term. It is clearly a political, virtue signaling organization that long ago erased its credibility – if it ever had any to begin with.
AppleBetty:
Yes, I meant Peace Prize.
These awful, wretched people are living off of Nobel’s will. The Nobel committee must reach into the cesspools of humanity to find them and give them their 15 minutes of visibility when rinsed off and cleaned up. This is a good signal not to visit the Scandinavian countries.
Israel is preventing its genocidal enemies from destroying it.
Therefore Israel is committing genocide.
This very basic—planned and tactical—“principle” of “projection”, typical of murderous regimes for whom non-stop propaganda is an essential weapon, is to be expected as part of the ongoing campaign to destroy Israel by any and all means necessary.
Curiously, it has captured the imagination of the virtuous around the globe…
…though it should be kept in mind that Nazism was also, at its core, a virtuous movement, meant to defend and preserve not only the great and civilized nation of Germany but the entire world from its eternal, insidious, genocidal enemy.
(And how’d that turn out?)
It’s another indication that the Davos class is silly and depraved.
They are not missing the absurdity. They are not asking whether Israel is committing genocide. The point is to stick that word on Israel, and on the Jews, so the crime that justified a Jewish homeland gets turned back on it, and the state loses its moral claim to exist. Once that is the goal, the real meaning of the word does not matter. See also the Cornell 7 and the word “rape.”
Powerline has several insightful links on this travesty.
(To be sure, just like the definition for “genocide” has had to be tweaked by our ethical arbiters to implicate Israel, so has—apparently—“peace”.)
“Harvard Celebrates Its Boycott-Israel, Blood Libel Nobel Laureate;
“Prize winner is Harvard Law grad who returned to campus in 2022 to demonize Jewish state”—
https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-celebrates-its-boycott-israel-blood-libel-nobel-laureate/
“A ‘peace prize’ for the vilification of Israel;
“Honoring Navi Pillay highlights the moral rot of the United Nations and Nobel Committee.”—
https://www.jns.org/opinion/column/ruthie-blum/a-peace-prize-for-the-vilification-of-israel
+ Bonus (on Abdul El Sayed’s perversity):
“‘Both of Them Have Proven Dangerous in Their Own Way’: Abdul El-Sayed Says Iran and Israel Are Equal Threats to United States”—
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/both-of-them-have-proven-dangerous-in-their-own-way-abdul-el-sayed-says-iran-and-israel-are-equal-threats-to-united-states/
I remember Yasser Arafat getting the peace prize. That destroyed its reputation then as far as I was concerned
The Peace Prize has long lost any significance or value.
If you want to read a book about the Nobel Peace Prize: Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World
Barry Meislin
Which is what you’d expect from someone who, when questioned by a refugee from Iran, refused to condemn the IGRC.
Europeans have never forgiven the Jews for the Holocaust.
Norway has 350,000 Muslims – like the US having 20,000,000.
Sweden has 1,000,000 – like the US having 35,000,000
The Caliphates of Norway and Sweden are on the horizon. Then again their Viking ancestors sold their fellow Europeans into Islamic slavery for centuries. Hence the word Slav.
Countries that are intent on civilizational suicide. They are very unserious people.
Genocide? Navi Pillay wins $1.2 million and a dictionary.
Al Gore and barack HUSSEIN commie receiving the Peace Prize was the tell -all that this prize is a sick joke.
A small solution for several related problems.
Then do the same for the UN and especially UNRWA
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/8d22907c43a143a76b17f1dfd6fe7b9bbd99697b68dda3d360b965d23539382e.png
Because (via Don Surber)
https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/2107819806938345773
UN spokesperson: “An internal investigation has concluded that UNRWA humanitarian workers in Gaza participated in the massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7”