BRUTAL! Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov TORCHES Nobel Committee After Controversial Peace Prize Award: “Maybe Next Year They’ll Give the Chemistry Prize to a Hamas Bomb Maker”
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has delivered a blistering rebuke of the Norwegian Nobel Committee after it awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to controversial South African jurist Navi Pillay, whose record of attacking Israel has sparked fierce condemnation from Israeli leaders and supporters of the Jewish state.
Kasparov, the 13th World Chess Champion and longtime opponent of authoritarian regimes, took to X with a devastating one-line response to the committee’s decision.
“Maybe next year they’ll give the Chemistry prize to a Hamas bomb maker.”
The tweet quickly went viral, drawing tens of thousands of likes as it cut through the usual polite fiction surrounding the award. In a follow-up, he dryly noted that he was aware the Peace Prize is handled by a separate Norwegian committee from the Swedish ones that award the other prizes, but the broader point landed.
The chess legend was reacting to the committee’s decision to honor Pillay “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” Pillay chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which issued a report accusing Israel of “genocide” in Gaza.
Critics, including Israeli officials and Jewish advocacy groups, have long documented her lack of impartiality: she signed a 2020 manifesto calling on governments to “Sanction Apartheid Israel,” then accepted the chairmanship of the inquiry without disclosing the conflict; she defended a fellow commissioner who invoked “the Jewish lobby”; and she has a record of one-sided criticism that ignored Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre of 1,200 Israelis, the rapes, the hostages, and the group’s use of human shields.
Jewish leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted with fury. Netanyahu stated that the Nobel Committee “has lost its moral compass” by awarding its highest honor to “a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state.”
UN Watch condemned the decision, with Executive Director Hillel Neuer highlighting Pillay’s “troubling record on antisemitism and gross breach of ethics.”
After the announcement, Pillay herself cracked a snide joke suggesting she might share the prize with President Trump, the man who has actually ended multiple wars, secured the release of hostages, and advanced real diplomacy.
President Trump himself delivered a blistering response later that day at a packed rally for Republican candidates in Syracuse, New York.
“The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel peace prize, but didn’t. And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway, and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision,” Trump said.
“The Nobel peace prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization,” he continued. “We will not forget, Norway, that you didn’t give this prize.”
Trump repeated his record of settling eight conflicts, including efforts involving Israel and Iran, where he has stated he stopped Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and prevented wider escalation in the Middle East, along with securing the return of hostages from Hamas. He noted he had never heard of Pillay and dismissed the decision as further evidence of the committee’s bias.
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