Israel Denounces Nobel Prize for Navi Pillay Over 2025 Gaza Genocide Findings
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 9
Israel Denounces Nobel Prize for Navi Pillay Over 2025 Gaza Genocide Findings
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 9
Summary
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led Israel’s backlash after Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize, calling the Norwegian committee’s decision misguided and accusing her of bias against Jews.
The criticism centers on Pillay’s role chairing a U.N. commission whose September 2025 report said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza and that some senior Israeli leaders had incited it.
Israel’s foreign ministry called the award a grotesque weaponization of the prize, while U.N. ambassador Danny Danon said honoring Pillay would damage the Nobel Committee’s credibility.
The Nobel committee mentioned Pillay’s Gaza work only briefly in its announcement, but chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes said that investigation played an important part in the decision.