Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
Last Friday, we were thrilled to see that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a deserving advocate for human rights, Navi Pillay. Pillay is a South African judge who fought apartheid and served on the ICC, the UN Tribunal prosecuting the genocide in Rwanda, and on the ICJ genocide case against Myanmar. More recently she chaired the UN Commission of Inquiry which concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
As Pillay’s investigation concluded in 2025, Israeli officials at the highest levels have “orchestrated a genocidal campaign for almost two years now with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza.”
Pillay also issued a warning to political leaders in Canada and elsewhere, arguing that “the international community cannot stay silent,” and that “All States are under a legal obligation to use all means that are reasonably available to them to stop the genocide in Gaza.”
By receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, we hope that Pillay’s important findings will receive the greater mainstream attention and respect that they urgently deserve. We will continue to press Canada to listen to the consensus in the human rights community, recognize the Gaza genocide, and take action to stop it. /…/
