Why Hamas Cheered Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize

Pillay’s human rights career hid the commitments of a campaigner behind the authority of a judge. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. It’s not every day that an Islamist death cult celebrates the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, but that is exactly what happened on Friday evening when Hamas welcomed the selection of Navi Pillay as “an important step toward international justice.” Why is Oslo’s humanitarian hero winning applause from an Iranian-backed terror proxy that massacred families and kidnapped children? Hillel C. Neuer, an international human rights lawyer, is the executive director of UN Watch in Geneva. More We Think You’d Like