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Elisha Wiesel discusses his father Elie Wiesel's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and criticizes the committee’s recent award to Navi Pillay, whom he accuses of bias against Israel. Wiesel argues that Pillay's actions, including her support for sanctioning Israel as an apartheid state, contradict the values his father represented when receiving the prize. He also points out a pattern where the Nobel Committee has applied different standards to Israeli laureates compared to others, suggesting ongoing issues with impartiality and fairness in award decisions.
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On December 10, 1986, Elisha Wiesel was 14 years old when he watched his father, Elie Wiesel, receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo City Hall. Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech emphasized the importance of taking sides against oppression and remembering genocide as a moral duty to the living.
However, on December 10, 2023, the same committee awarded the prize to Navi Pillay, who led a UN commission that issued a report on September 16, 2022, which Wiesel claims "betrayed the meaning of the word genocide and weaponized it against Israel." The commission criticized Israel for not meeting impossible moral standards expected of no other nation defending itself.
Wiesel criticizes Pillay's history of anti-Israel advocacy, noting her signature on a manifesto in 2020 calling for sanctions against "Apartheid Israel," further highlighting the perceived shift in values behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
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On December 10, 1986, I was 14 years old, sitting in Oslo City Hall as my father, Elie Wiesel, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
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father → sit → Prize
I will never forget the look of hope on his face that day.
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I → forget → face
He had spent his life tortured by the thought that the world had looked away from the Jewish people as the Nazis filled the gas chambers and crematoria with our brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, children.
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Nazis → spend → brothers
Finally, he felt seen, and he had a message to share.
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he → feel → message
As he put it in his acceptance speech, “We must always take sides.
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We → put → sides
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”
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Neutrality → help → oppressor
My father was honored because he had turned the memory of genocide into a moral duty to the living.
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he → honor → living
This morning, the same committee awarded the same prize to Navi Pillay, who chaired the UN commission of inquiry that, on September 16 of last year, betrayed the meaning of the word genocide and weaponized it against Israel.
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that → award → Israel
Her commission held Israel to impossible moral standards demanded of no other sovereign nation defending itself from attack.
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commission → hold → attack
The decision followed years of anti-Israel advocacy by Pillay, including signing a manifesto in 2020 calling on governments to “Sanction Apartheid Israel.”
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decision → follow → Israel
Others have been able to see Pillay for who she is.
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she → see → Pillay
In 2022, for example, Berlin’s mayor withdrew her support from an event honoring Pillay with a peace medal.
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mayor → withdraw → medal
The event was subsequently canceled.
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event → cancel → ?
The decision to honor Pillay is not a onetime lapse for the Nobel Committee.
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decision → honor → Committee
It is part of a long-standing trend.
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It → stand → trend
Members of the committee have said publicly that they wished they could take back former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres’s 1994 prize because of concerns over Israel’s conduct.
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they → say → conduct
A decade later, four of the five members were still defending former Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat’s prize, awarded that same year.
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members → defend → prize
The Israeli laureate was judged by everything he did afterward.
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he → judge → everything
The Palestinian laureate was never judged again.
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laureate → judge → ?
Antisemitism today looks less like hatred than like scrutiny with one permanent defendant, carried out in the language of justice.
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Antisemitism → look → justice
Kåre Kristiansen, a member of the committee, understood this.
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Kristiansen → understand → this
He resigned within an hour of the 1994 announcement because he could not honor a man whose record was soaked in terror.
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record → resign → terror
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