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Joel Kontinen
There are
bad decisions and disgraceful ones. And then there’s the awarding of the 2026
Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay.
Donald trump
has castigated Norway for its design, and so has Israel.
The choice
is hardly out of character for an award whose history has repeatedly shown that
its name guarantees nothing about its recipients’ merit.
Indeed,
this isn’t an aberration of the Norwegian committee. It has also provided Jasser
Arafat with the peace price.
But it’s an
especially egregious example of a familiar pattern: an international
establishment congratulating itself for advancing peace while rewarding people
whose records make a mockery of the concept.
Pillay, who
chaired the United Nations Commission of Inquiry that accused Israel of
committing genocide in Gaza, has become a symbol of the double standards
permeating the global system.
The woman
now being feted in the name of peace presided over a more aptly dubbed
“inquisition” whose whole purpose was to brand the Jewish state with a
bloody—blood libelous.
The term
“genocide” has a specific legal definition, including the requirement to
establish intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected national, ethnic,
racial, or religious group.
It’s
laughable to suggest that Israel’s behavior even remotely fits that
description, as it took great pains to avoid civilian casualties and flooded
Gaza with humanitarian aid.
Source:
Ruthie
Blum 2026
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