On Friday, David Strom at Hot Air posted an article about the latest awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. Not surprisingly, it didn’t go to President Trump. I would like to point out that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Obama when he had been in office for less than a year and had done nothing to earn it. It seems that the prestige of the Prize has been definitely diminished in recent years. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay.

The article reports:

So who is this outstanding exemplar of human rights advocacy? Why, she’s a South African judge who put together the case for prosecuting Israel at The Hague, of course. She’s the first nonwhite woman on South Africa’s High Court, and later a judge on the ICC Appeals Chamber from 2003–2008. After that, she served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. In 2021, she chaired the UNHRC’s open-ended Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory.

It all sounds so NGO-y, doesn’t it? There are all the right words, and all the proper saccharine sentimentality that works perfectly to launder the raw hatred for Jews that lies just underneath the surface. 

It was all a sham, and we can know that her role at the “Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory” was a sham because, before she was appointed, she had already rendered her opinion. Before taking the chair in July 2021, Pillay signed a June 2020 manifesto calling on governments to “Sanction Apartheid Israel” and a June 2021 letter urging Biden to punish Israel. She took the supposedly impartial job a month later.

It is amazing to me how some people can look at Israel, a country about the size of New Jersey, and blame it for any unrest in the Middle East. You really have to overlook a lot of basic facts to do that.

It’s interesting to me that she is a black woman from South Africa. South Africa right now is not a poster child for equal rights or peace. The testimonies of the white farmers who simply inherited their farms and became a target for murder and property theft in South Africa are frightening. Pillay needs to clean up her own back yard before she accepts a prize for promoting peace.