Navi Pillay, chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, addresses a press conference. Credit: Jean-Marc Ferr\u00e9\/U.N. Photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The choice is hardly out of character for an award whose history has repeatedly shown that its name guarantees nothing about its recipients\u2019 merit. Indeed, this isn\u2019t an aberration for the Norwegian committee. But it\u2019s an especially egregious example of a familiar pattern: an international establishment congratulating itself for advancing peace while rewarding people whose records make a mockery of the concept.<\/p>\n
Pillay, who chaired the United Nations Commission of Inquiry that accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, has become a symbol of the double standards permeating the global system. The woman now being feted in the name of peace presided over a more aptly dubbed \u201cinquisition\u201d whose whole purpose was to brand the Jewish state with a bloody\u2014blood libelous\u2014stain. Like an irremovable tattoo.<\/p>\n
The term \u201cgenocide\u201d has a specific legal definition, including the requirement to establish intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected national, ethnic, racial or religious group. It\u2019s laughable to suggest that Israel\u2019s behavior even remotely fits that description, as it took great pains to avoid civilian casualties and flooded Gaza with humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n
That Hamas kept stealing the food and medicine, and prevented anyone other than its goons from entering the hundreds of miles of tunnels, was never of interest to Pillay and her ilk. Nor did they ever note that the population in Gaza has grown in the past three years. Some genocide.<\/p>\n
Though her commission\u2019s report wasn\u2019t a judicial verdict, the force of its accusation was unmistakable, and Pillay was gleefully instrumental in promoting the lie for pernicious purposes. Which we now see has paid off, big-time.<\/p>\n
This was hardly the first time her commission helped fuel the campaign to portray Israel as uniquely depraved. Pillay, a former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008-2014), was appointed to her latest post in 2021. That was when the \u201cIndependent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory\u201d was established by the U.N. Human Rights Council to concoct a report to vilify Israel.<\/p>\n
And, boy, did she ever come through for her anti-Israel colleagues, producing a mendacious paper<\/a><\/span> on Israeli \u201ccrimes\u201d in Gaza. Its allegations reinforced a false narrative depicting Israel not as a country at war with sadistic barbarians\u2014thousands of whom breached the border on Oct. 7, 2023 to rape, maim and slaughter 1,200 innocent Israelis, and abduct 251 others\u2014but as a sexually abusive state.<\/p>\nNothing new about the turpitude of the U.N.\u2019s endless attempts to demonize Israel. So, Pillay\u2019s having been selected to head the commission wasn\u2019t surprising.<\/p>\n
Ditto for her winning an award transformed long ago into a vehicle for leftist virtue-signaling. In his 1895 will, Swedish scientist\/businessman Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, bequeathed most of his immense fortune to establishing prizes in science, literature and peace.<\/p>\n
The latter was intended to recognize efforts toward fraternity among nations. Its subsequent history, however, has repeatedly exposed the gulf between those ideals and the eponymous committee\u2019s selections. Rather than consistently rewarding meaningful contributions to peace, the prize has served as a platform for globalist ideology involving the inversion of right and wrong.<\/p>\n
Pillay epitomizes this moral rot. Her new laureate status is less an honor than a mark of Cain.<\/p>\n
To add to this blot, her prize was announced on Oct. 9, two days after Israel marked the third anniversary of the worst atrocities committed against Jews since the Holocaust. The timing highlights the perversity of the prize and its recipient.<\/p>\n
Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS.<\/em><\/p>\n
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