My Endorsement
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The Nobel Committee’s decision to award the anti-Israel shill the Nobel Peace Prize makes a mockery of this once-august award.
When Navanethem (Navi) Pillay heard that she’d been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, she wondered if “perhaps it was meant to be” that she learned about her honor while attending a legal conference in the German city of Nuremberg.
Speaking to reporters, Ms. Pillay put her work on a par with the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-6, which saw senior Nazis tried for crimes against humanity. She might have been better off referencing 1935, when a series of anti-Jewish “Nuremberg Laws” were passed during a Nazi conference in that city, for Ms. Pillay has devoted a considerable amount of her long career to trying to weaken and destroy the world’s only Jewish state.
Ms. Pillay began her career in her native South Africa, where she defended anti-apartheid activists. In 1995, South African President Nelson Mandela nominated her as a judge both on South Africa’s High Court in 1995 and on the UN’s new International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She later served as a judge in the International Criminal Court (ICC) and as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Throughout her meteoric career, she stood out for her antipathy for Israel and to its supporters around the world.
At the ICC, she pushed hard to admit Palestine in 2015, encouraging anti-Israel activists to use the ICC’s language of international law to isolate and demonize Israel. When she became the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees in 2008, one of her first acts was to reaffirm a notoriously shameful UN conference on racism (the Durban Conference of 2001), which had been taken over by shockingly antisemitic and anti-Israel hatred. Pillay declared her support for the Durban Conference's biased findings, downplaying its antisemitism.
UN Watch, which monitors UN agencies for bias, notes that Pillay “has a long record of one-sided statements that single out Israel for condemnation over alleged war crimes, human rights abuse and racism.” In 2020 she supported a call for the international isolation of Israel: it declared “Sanction Apartheid Israel!” A jurist of Pillay’s stature should have known better than to sign this noxious petition, yet she did, lending her considerable prestige to the global campaign against the Jewish state.
The UN has a major anti-Zionism problem. Its old Commission on Human Rights was scrapped in 2006, largely because of its obsession with condemning Israel. Instead of focusing on human rights abuses around the world, about half of its work was focused on criticizing Israel over and over again. It was replaced in 2006 with the UN Human Rights Council: a 47-member committee that includes some of the world’s worst dictatorships. The Council singles out only one nation in the world - Israel - for discussion at each and every session. The UN Human Rights Council has issued more statements lambasting Israel than it has criticizing Iran, North Korea, and Syria together.
In 2021, the PLO and Pakistan called for an urgent meeting of the UN Human Rights Council to berate Israel once again. The result was the creation of a new Commission of Inquiry which would place even more scrutiny on Israel, investigating what the Council called the “root causes” of violence and “systematic discrimination” allegedly faced by Arabs in Israel. It is tasked with producing two annual reports excoriating Israel in perpetuity. The leader of this new kangaroo court was none other than Navi Pillay, who’d already made it clear that her hatred of the Jewish state overrode any impartiality she might have as a judge.
On October 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters, as well as countless numbers of civilians, invaded Israel and went on a spree of terror, killing, maiming, torturing, and raping Israeli civilians. Over 1200 Israelis were murdered and over 250 people were kidnapped and brought into Gaza.
Pillay’s reaction? “When you have a whole population oppressed for so long with no remedies, no relief, they are actually forced to resort to armed struggle.” (Never mind that all Israeli soldiers and civilians left Gaza in 2005. Israelis abandoned homes and farms they’d built there, and even dug up Jewish cemeteries and removed the bodies for reburial in Israel. If anyone was oppressing Gaza’s residents it was their own brutal Hamas-run government.)
Her commission quickly pivoted to producing reports that bolstered claims currently being argued before the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing genocide. A 2025 report overseen by Pillay declared Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. A 2026 report she oversaw went further, claiming that Israel was not only committing genocide, it was targeting Arab children not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank and elsewhere for utter “destruction.”
In both cases, Israel’s Foreign Ministry refuted her methodology and findings, accusing Pillay and her colleagues of relying on Hamas’ data and talking points, of ignoring Hamas’ role in causing suffering in Gaza, of ignoring viewpoints and information that contradict Hamas’ narrative, and of adopting a reflective, extreme anti-Israel stance.
Perhaps it was inevitable that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would go to an anti-Israel activist. Of the five judges, two have a history of anti-Israel activism. Gry Larsen, one of the judges, previously called for a “full boycott” of Israel. Nobel Committee Chairman Jorgen Watne Frydnes has a history of criticizing Israel. On October 26, 2023, two and a half weeks after Hamas’ attack, and the day before Israel began its offensive in Gaza, he wrote that Gaza represented “an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” laying the blame squarely on Israel, entirely omitting Hamas’ responsibility for embedding itself in civilian homes, schools, mosques, and hospitals in Gaza.
Frydnes told reporters that Navi Pillay’s anti-Israel activism was “an important part of the reasoning why she received the prize.”
It’s a pity that the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize is honoring Pillay. Here are a few alternative candidates who have displayed incredible heroism and deserve this prestigious award.
An Arabic-speaking Druze mother of four, Nasreen Yousef’s quick thinking saved her village of Moshav Yated on October 7, 2023. When a Hamas terrorist entered her house, Yousef left her safe room to confront him, telling him in Arabic: “look me in the eyes; I’m not afraid of you.” She gained his trust and learned about the location of other terrorists hidden throughout her small farming town.
When a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Colombia on August 10, 2026, 80 Israeli search and rescue experts flew to the country to help search for survivors. They were part of Brit Re’im - “Covenant of Friends,” an Israeli organization led by Brigadier General (Res.) Yossi Pinto that sends rescue experts to major disaster zones. Brit Re’im volunteers labored for days, braving aftershocks, and helped to rescue survivors from the rubble.
Youssef Ziadna is an Israeli Bedouin mini-bus driver who saved 30 people from Hamas’ deadly massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2026. Early in the morning he was driving near Sa’ad Junction in Israel when a survivor of the Nova festival intercepted his bus and desperately signalled for him to turn around and flee. Instead, Mr. Ziadna continued driving, dodging rockets and gunfire. “I had an option to go back,” he recalled; “A weaker man may have done a U-turn at that junction. But I said no way, I will throw myself at death if it means I can save lives.”
When an Islamist terrorist attacked worshippers on Yom Kippur in Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, in England, Rabbi Walker was leading services. As the terrorist rammed a car into the synagogue and began stabbing people outside, Rabbi Walker quickly helped bar the synagogue’s front door, then stood bracing the door as his congregants took shelter inside. Two congregants were killed; Rabbi Walker’s quick thinking heroism prevented the attacker from coming inside and stabbing even more people.
Yossi Landau is head of operations for southern Israel for ZAKA, Israel’s largest rescue and recovery organization with 3,000 volunteers. ZAKA volunteers prepare bodies for burial according to Jewish tradition: that means treating the deceased with dignity and gathering all parts of the bodies that were disfigured in war or in terror attacks. In the first week after Hamas’ 2023 attacks, ZAKA volunteers prepared over 670 bodies for burial, treating the deceased with dignity. In some cases, they were the first to find survivors, as when ZAKA volunteers rescued a baby from the back seat of a car in which its parents had been murdered. ZAKA volunteers recovered remains of Hamas fighters alongside with their victims, treating each body with respect.
“I am telling the volunteers that we are on a mission,” explained Mr. Landau, who also worked recovering victims’ remains in New York on September 11, 2001. “It’s a holy mission. It’s in our religion… We are going to get everybody to have a grave and a place where their family should be able to come and say a blessing and give a blessing.”
On October 8, 2026, Israeli President Isaac Herzog awarded Israel’s Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism to six heroes of FlyDubai flight 1073. “Through their courage, determination, and remarkable presence of mind, these heroes prevented a devastating aviation disaster that would have sent shockwaves all around the world, and they saved 174 precious lives,” Pres. Herzog said.
The Nobel Peace Prize lost all credibility when it was awarded to Yasser Arafat.
The reaction of Prime Minister Jean Chretien following 9/11 was to
talk about "root causes".
We would like to live in a world of peace and security and so we might give a Peace Prize to someone whose work has made life more peaceful and secure for some people somewhere. If we cannot find a community that is more secure this year than last year, then no Peace Prize should be awarded.
The work of this year's recipient has not in any way increased the security of those she supports but has, tragically, decreased the security of those she attacks. Her work has made the world less peaceful by any objective measure.
It is perverse that she can win a peace prize based on her hate.
This will only continue. It is already written that in the end of days the world will turn on its head, right will be wrong and wrong will be right. Hamas is great, Israel is inherently wicked, top university professors talk nonsense, a man can be a woman because he says so. I don't think any of us need to see much more to convince us that we are already there. I'm just waiting to see when a man can marry a goat, and the goat can file for half his estate on divorce.
It’s nice to read a comment or criticism from a kinepolen. Tozzelmov!
In the interests of truth in advertising, it should be renamed the Nobel Piece Prize, in honor of all the Jews murdered due to 'people' like her.
The "Nobel Peace Prize" is shameful and worthless.
It has no moral worth and is without any value at all.
Did you all realize that one spelling of Nobel in Hebrew: נבל, Nun Bais Lamed without a Vov, is the perfect description of its committee and several awardees? The Hebrew word Na'val (both short A sound) means 'scoundrel', 'fool,' 'senseless or vile person'. I say we start calling it the Nah'val prize.
I'm sure Kim Jong Un will win next year for having such a successful state-managed economy that North Korea ranks lowest in the world for adult obesity at 0.00%.
I am so happy that you wrote about this horrible Nobel prize winning horrific woman. I read about her in the New York Times and was so angered by her winning the award. I don’t know what else to say. Too upset.
It looks like the UN and the Noble prize committee , turned into big anti semites and anti Israel haters, and forget that other countries violate human rights, and there is double standard for Jews and Israel, if October 7 , 2023 happened to another and not Israel, they would not have a problem if thst country defense itself and its citizens
A disappointing choice for this great Prize .
I guess these days they would give the Noble prize, to worst anti Semitie in the 20 century in history, the author of the hate manifesto too
I understand they are going to award it posthumously to Adolph for 1942.
I don’t like to agree with Trump’s position on this woman and this award. But his take on this is accurate. He doesn’t deserve this award, but neither does this woman This is such a disgrace.
Another score in the Olam Hasheker (World of Lies) basket: what a travesty of truth, justice and everything good to award such a hate-filled person for her hatred!
Does she honestly think they would give such a prize to Jews/Israelis? It must be galling enough for them to have to give prizes in science and mathematics to so many of us.
The Norwegians hate Israel for reasons unknown. Perhaps they envy the warm climate, or possibly they have imported so many Muslims that they have to pander at every point to maintain some illusion of safety. Call it the Oslo Syndrome as opposed to the Stockholm Syndrome.
Dr. Miller has one glaring omission on her list of those who should have received the Nobel Peace Prize: President Donald J. Trump. He has done more than any other individual to bring peace to the Middle East and the world at large. Because of President Trump, Israel still stands, Iran has not (yet) achieved a nuclear weapon, etc. etc. etc., on down to the fact that his Abraham Accords allowed me, a Jew, to sit in a SYNAGOGUE in ABU DHABI a few years ago and pray...something I never expected to do in my lifetime.
Hell has frozen over, I have given you a plus.
Wow thank you so much for this article. It has really opened my eyes.
I wonder if in a weird way the name of Navi Pillay should be reconstructed to read "Naive Pillock". She may be book learned, but in the areas of reality and truth she has a lot of catching up to do.
The irony is that in Hebrew, "navi" means "prophet," but there have been many false ones, and she's a prime example!
Co-incidentally I thought of that as well - and I came to the same conclusion. Perhaps Hashem might open the earth and swallow this child of Amalek ? Cheers
The Nobel Peace prize has been a joke since it was awarded to Yassar Arafat.
And a very bad, offensive joke at that!
What about the Peace prize for the underserving Yasser Arafat?
I assume you meant "undeserving," which is quite a euphemism!
Last March I heard a representative from ZAKA speak at a conference on disability rights and inclusion. The person who spoke urged audience members to always keep disabled people in mind during a crisis, as many of them are unable to escapes said crisis. The head of ZAKA deserves to be fully acknowledged, as do the rest of the agency employees. With that said, I mean no disrespect to the other individuals that Dr. Yvetter Alt Miller mentioned in her article. Shavua tov!
Wow! I was just contemplating how the instigator of the nobel prize was a man who invented by a man who felt he did not want to be remembered by his initial fame of dynamite-therefore tried to cover up to a prize-How ironic that it bounces back to a person who condones hamas and the like which is what Alfred Nobel tried to avoid! Perfect really! A destuctive force of a person she is!