The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday that Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, an 85-year-old South African jurist, received the 125th Nobel Peace Prize for “her efforts to promote peace and international law,” according to the committee’s citation. The decision drew an immediate and harsh response from Israel’s Foreign Ministry, which said in a post on the social media platform X that the award amounted to a “grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice,” according to statements reported by media outlets.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry invoked the name of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister, in criticizing the committee’s decision, according to statements reported by media outlets. The reference to Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister between 1933 and 1945, was the most pointed element of a statement that Israeli officials said was warranted by what they described as the committee’s legitimization of false allegations.
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