Following (with added links) is the full text of CAIR’s statement as shared via Facebook.
We strongly condemn the Nobel Prize committee’s unconscionable decision to award this year’s peace prize to María Corina Machado. Machado is a vocal supporter of Israel’s racist Likud Party and earlier this year she delivered remarks at a conference of European fascists, including Geert Wilders and Marie Le Pen, which openly called for a new Reconquista, referencing the ethnic cleansing of Spanish Muslims and Jews in the 1500s.
The Nobel Peace Prize should go to individuals who have shown moral consistency by bravely advocating justice for all people, not to politicians who demand democracy in their own nation while supporting racism, bigotry and fascism abroad. We call on Ms. Machado to renounce her support for the Likud Party and anti-Muslim fascism in Europe. If she refuses to do so, the Nobel Prize committee should reconsider its decision, which has undermined its own reputation. An anti-Muslim bigot and supporter of European fascism would have no place being mentioned alongside the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other worthy winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee should instead recognize an honoree who has shown moral consistency by bravely pursuing justice for all people, such as one of the students, journalists, activists, medical professionals who have risked their careers and even their lives to oppose the crime of our time: the genocide in Gaza.
– Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
October 10, 2025
October 10, 2025
Related Off-site Links:
“Peace” Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like María Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize – Michelle Ellner (Common Dreams, October 10, 2025).
2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: An Interview with Greg Grandin, Historian of Latin America – Democracy Now! (October 10, 2025).
A Beacon of Hope and Woke Bullshit – Abby Zimet (Common Dreams, October 10, 2025).
The Making of María Corina Machado – Caracas Chronicles (March 16, 2025).
UPDATES: Venezuela’s Opposition Used U.N. Meeting to Lobby for U.S. Coup – Joseph Bouchard (Common Dreams, October 11, 2025).
How Rescinding My Congratulations to María Corina Machado Was the Right Thing to Do – Rev. Karla (Spirituality Matters, October 13, 2025).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• A Call to Halt an Illegal Invasion of Venezuela
• Jeffrey Sachs: Quote of the Day – May 1, 2019
• Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize (2009)
• Doris Lessing Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (2007)
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