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”.

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    Middle East Eye consistently has the most baffling and undisciplined takes imaginable.

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      And you refuse to condemn the genocide in Gaza, so you are definitely an expert on baffling and undisciplined takes!

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      They literally don’t have a “take;” the article is reporting on a statement made by another organization.

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        … Which MEE presents and uncritically defends. It’s an article about a Nobel Peace Prize winner that literally doesn’t mention why the Prize was awarded. Please think before you post.

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        Imagine quoting the (checks notes) Nobel Peace Prize committee. The horror. They should be quoting the Maduro regime instead.