00:00Why doesn't Israel like the new Nobel Peace Prize winner? Joseph Goebbels will undoubtedly be applauding.
00:06From hell. That was the Israeli government's reaction to this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
00:11The winner is Navi Pillay, an 85-year-old South African judge. And to understand why Israel is
00:17So furious, we have to go back to September 2025. Pillay chaired an independent commission
00:24The UN report concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and that high-ranking officials
00:28Israelis, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited those acts. Israel never
00:34She cooperated with the commission and accused it of having a political agenda. Pillay, for her part,
00:39He said that he had never been called an anti-Semite until he chaired that committee.
00:44The clash with Israel goes back much further. In July 2014, when it was still high
00:49Commissioner Pillay expressed alarm at the indiscriminate attacks against civilians in Gaza
00:54and also because of the rockets launched from there toward Israel. Before the Human Rights Council,
00:59He warned that there was a strong possibility that Israel had violated the law
01:03international humanitarian law in a way that could amount to war crimes.
01:08In the same session, he condemned Hamas for indiscriminately firing rockets at Israel.
01:13Even so, the Israeli ambassador, Evyatar Manor, reproached him for not protecting rights
01:18From the Israelis' perspective, she and the Council had failed spectacularly. For Israel,
01:24Pillay is a biased judge, and that's why she says today that the Nobel Committee awarded a lie.
01:29The Committee, on the other hand, highlighted his independence and his life dedicated to justice.
01:34Pillay grew up under apartheid. His life during that time bears certain parallels to that of Mahatma Gandhi.
01:39Gandhi, who after studying law had arrived in South Africa some 70 years earlier, where he
01:45He was heavily involved in defending the Indian community against racial discrimination. None
01:50Buffet hired her because she wasn't white, so she opened her own. From there, she defended prisoners.
01:55Politicians like Nelson Mandela. After the end of apartheid and a specialization at the University
02:01From Harvard, in 1995 she was appointed the first black judge on the Supreme Court of
02:06South Africa, and that same year she was elected judge of the International Criminal Court, created to judge.
02:12the crimes committed in Rwanda during the genocide.
02:15As a judge of the Tribunal for Rwanda, she achieved something historic: the recognition of rape.
02:20as an act of genocide. In 2008 she was elected High Commissioner for Human Rights.
02:25United Nations for Human Rights. During the six years he was in charge
02:29of that organization, considered the moral voice of the UN, its work was guided by the defense
02:34of the universal application of human rights, of the rights of migrants, the
02:38indigenous people and LGBTIQ+ people, and for the open denunciation of powerful governments, for
02:44those who were targeted by many of them. Furthermore, their work was crucial in documenting
02:49the crimes committed in the civil wars in Syria and Sri Lanka. His name is not
02:53He is a stranger to Colombia, a country he has visited during some of its most critical moments.
02:58The first visit was in October 2008, at the height of the extrajudicial killings scandal.
03:04also known as false positives, civilians murdered by the military and presented as
03:09guerrillas killed in combat, estimated to be at least 6,402 between 2002 and 2008.
03:16The second was in 2013, after requesting that the reform that expanded criminal jurisdiction be overturned.
03:20military.
03:21This Friday, in her first appearance since winning the Nobel Prize, Pillai spoke from Nuremberg,
03:26the city where the Nazi leaders were tried. There he dedicated the award to all the survivors.
03:31of international crimes and warned that international law and human rights
03:35They are under political attack, especially from the International Criminal Court, one of the institutions
03:40which Donald Trump has criticized the most.
