A moment of low: Nobel Prize for hatred

Ben-Dror Yemini attacks the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, describing her as the most prominent advocate of hatred toward Israel. He accuses the international community of hypocrisy and hostility toward Israel, citing UN reports in which Israel is attacked and Hamas is not mentioned. Yemini claims that Pillay was chosen precisely because of her hostility to Israel, not despite it.

Ben-Dror Yemini, a columnist for ynet, sharply attacks the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a former South African judge who served as the head of the UN Human Rights Council's commission of inquiry into the situation in the territories. Yemini calls the decision "a moment of low" and argues that it proves there is no bottom to the pit of hostility, hypocrisy, and racism against Israel. He cites statistics on UN resolutions against Israel and describes Pillay as someone who signed a petition calling for sanctions against the "apartheid state of Israel." Yemini notes that a report by the commission she headed mentioned Israel 277 times and Hamas zero times. He claims that Pillay was chosen for the award precisely because of her hostility to Israel, not despite it, and compares the situation to Goebbels and Orwell.