An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Europe.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) said that they “strongly disagree” with the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award the prize to Maria Corina Machado, who they said “delivered remarks at a conference of European fascists, including Geert Wilders and Marie Le Pen, which openly called for a new Reconquista, referencing the ethnic cleansing of Spanish Muslims and Jews in the 1500s”.
If Henry Kissinger got to keep his peace prize, then they’re really wasting their breath.
No kidding.
Plus, as much as others or I may not like it, the selection criteria does not include a morality clause.
Broadly speaking, they grant the award to people who have
“done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
I’m sorry but if those are the criteria then they’re just picking names out of hats at this point and they aren’t even keeping track of the names they put in the hat.
Look up who is on the Nobel Peace Prize committee and you’ll see it’s a bit of a joke.
I looked them up…I’ve no idea who these people are (I don’t know people in politics or major corporation leaders, etc so I don’t really know why I bothered looking in the first place
)It is just 5 Norwegian libs. They are pretty unremarkable outside of being on the committee.
The Nobel Peace Price is a constant reminder of why you shouldn’t trust Norway to do anything. Most of the others are also kind of jokes (especially the literature one which is similarly a load of Swedish libs who are only remarkable for being on the committee) but the peace price is a borderline parody at this point.
Or you know, they could just revoke the noble peace prize and just not give it out this year. That would send a better message at this point.
What’s the whole point of handing out these awards every year if they’re not deserved?
If they had any semblance of balls they’d give it to doctors, journalists and volunteers in Gaza. Or just Palestinians in general.
The Nobel prize is a jester’s hat.
Only worthy of ridicule.Nah, the physics, chemistry and medicine prizes are always on point I think.
I imagine there’s some bias and racism in there too.
I mean it’s not like they have the best track record giving these away anyway right?
