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”.
Yeah. What exactly is the criteria for winning one of these, anyway?
Idk the exact criteria but being a war criminal gets you fast-tracked.
Does it matter anymore? Henry Kissinger won it, for fucks sake. This is the second time that I’m aware of someone winning the prize where it almost feels sarcastic. We live in opposite land.
The Nobel prize is meaningless.
It’s meta like everything else. Sure, there are relatively simple rules that ought to lead to obvious, inexorable outcomes. But people are in charge and they’re thinking: But what would it mean?
Give the Peace Prize to Putin! Maybe it will slow him down.
Give the Peace Prize to Kissinger! Maybe our empathetic embrace will soften his demeanor.
Give the Peace Prize to a conservative nut job. Let’s throw in some support for fostering democratic values.
Promoting Western imperialism seems to be the main one. The postmodern West loves to make fun of human values by giving a “peace prize” to pillaging murderers, lol.