Frankfurt (Germany), 9 Oct. (LaPresse) – “The Nobel Committee has lost its moral compass. It has awarded its highest honour to an intolerant individual who has built her career on inventing and spreading slander against the only Jewish state.” This was written by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a message published on X, attacking the awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to the South African jurist Navi Pillay. The Prime Minister used the English expression “blood libels”, a reference to the historical blood libels levelled against the Jews. “The achievement of which Navi Pillay is most proud was legitimising a corrupt prosecutor who resorted to her lies against Israel in the hope that, by joining her mob of fanatics ready to lynch, he would manage to escape a rape charge,” Netanyahu continued, referring to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan. “Karim Khan, accused by ICC staff members themselves of rape and sexual harassment against them, used Pillay’s lies to construct a false case against Israel,” stated the Israeli Prime Minister. “Pillay supplied the lies. Khan turned them into a weapon. And now the members of the Nobel Committee, who have lost their bearings, are paying tribute to the woman who fuelled this demonisation of the Jews and this travesty of justice,” Netanyahu concluded.
Nobel Prize: Netanyahu criticises Pillay: “She invents and spreads slander about Israel”
Frankfurt (Germany), 9 Oct. (LaPresse) – “The Nobel Committee has lost its moral compass. It has awarded its highest honour to an intolerant individual who has built her career on inventing and spreading slander against the only Jewish state.” This was written by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a message published on X, attacking the awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to the South African jurist Navi Pillay. The Prime Minister used the English expression “blood libels”, a reference to the historical blood libels levelled against the Jews. “The achievement of which Navi Pillay is most proud was legitimising a corrupt prosecutor who resorted to her lies against Israel in the hope that, by joining her mob of fanatics ready to lynch, he would manage to escape a rape charge,” Netanyahu continued, referring to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan. “Karim Khan, accused by ICC staff members themselves of rape and sexual harassment against them, used Pillay’s lies to construct a false case against Israel,” stated the Israeli Prime Minister. “Pillay supplied the lies. Khan turned them into a weapon. And now the members of the Nobel Committee, who have lost their bearings, are paying tribute to the woman who fuelled this demonisation of the Jews and this travesty of justice,” Netanyahu concluded.