Benjamin Netanyahu says Nobel Committee "has lost its moral compass" over peace prize to Navi Pillay

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the Norwegian Nobel Committee after it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a former top United Nations human rights official who chaired a U.N. commission that determined Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. In a post on X, Netanyahu accused Pillay of bigotry and of spreading false charges against Israel. Israel has declined to work with the commission and denies the genocide finding; the panel also accused Hamas of war crimes. The prize was announced in Norway less than three weeks before Israel’s election, in which Netanyahu is campaigning to keep his position. It followed U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of the commission’s findings, and hours later his administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, where Pillay once served as a judge.