The Wild Reed: CAIR Responds to María Corina Machado Being Awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Friday, October 10, 2025

CAIR Responds to María Corina Machado Being Awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

In a media release issued earlier today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) calls upon Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado to renounce her support for European fascism, Israel’s far-right Likud Party, and anti-muslim bigotry.

Following (with added links) is the full text of CAIR’s statement as shared via Facebook.

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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.