‘Disappointing’ that Nobel committee ignore Palestine amid genocide
Saul Takahashi, professor of peace studies at Osaka Jogakuin University, said that, while he has nothing negative to say about the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the committee missed an opportunity by snubbing Palestinians.
“In the midst of the genocide in Gaza and the accelerated violence in the West Bank and now what’s happening in Lebanon, a lot of Palestinian organisations and individuals like journalists were in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize, but they were passed over,” the former UN commissioner for human rights in occupied Palestine told Al Jazeera.
“I think this points to how the West has generally treated Palestinians for a long time.”
He said the threat of nuclear annihilations, on which the committee focused this year, is very serious.
“But given what is happening right now in Palestine and the clear double standards and hypocrisy which the international community, and in particular the powerful countries in the West, have been showing in, it would’ve made sense for the committee to make a strong message about the importance of peace and humanitarian work in Gaza right now. It’s disappointing that this didn’t happen.”
The South African anti-apartheid cathedral that’s now a pro-Palestine hub
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As Israel’s war on Gaza enters a second year, weekly vigils at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town have been held for more than a year to call for peace.
Every Wednesday, a crowd gathers on the stone steps outside the towering Gothic building, many with placards and Palestinian keffiyehs, as they call for an end to Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
In September 1989, thousands gathered to protest against apartheid outside St George’s Cathedral, a site of pro-Palestinian solidarity today
People march in support of Palestinians in Fridays for future demonstration
Young protesters march during Fridays for Future demonstration in Milan, Italy on Friday
About 2,000 young people participated in the march that had a ‘Stop genocide. Stop ecocide’ banner opening the event. During the march there were many pro-Palestine and anti-genocide choruses and actions near some city buildings and significant places
