{"id":65738,"date":"2026-10-11T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65738"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:11:50","slug":"not-surprising-but-sad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65738","title":{"rendered":"Not Surprising, But Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, David Strom at <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2026\/10\/09\/she-got-the-nobel-prize-for-hating-israel-n3819774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about the latest awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. Not surprisingly, it didn&#8217;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&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>So who is this outstanding exemplar of human rights advocacy? Why, she&#8217;s a South African judge who put together the case for prosecuting Israel at The Hague, of course. She&#8217;s the first nonwhite woman on South Africa&#8217;s High Court, and later a judge on the ICC Appeals Chamber from 2003\u20132008. After that, she served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. In 2021, she chaired the UNHRC&#8217;s open-ended Commission of Inquiry on the <a title=\"Israel\" href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/tags\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">occupied Palestinian territory<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It all sounds so NGO-y, doesn&#8217;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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It was all a sham, and we can know that her role at the &#8220;Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory&#8221; 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 &#8220;Sanction Apartheid Israel&#8221; and a June 2021 letter urging Biden to punish Israel. She took the supposedly impartial job a month later.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, David Strom at Hot Air posted an article about the latest awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. Not surprisingly, it didn&#8217;t go to President Trump. I would like to point out that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=65738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16870,1583,20302,940,364,10589,980],"class_list":["post-65738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-strom","tag-hot-air","tag-navi-pillay","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-president-obama","tag-president-trump","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65739,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65738\/revisions\/65739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}