Join CODEPINK in saying: all recognition for peace and freedom should go to the people of Gaza, not to politicians who cheer for bombs and sanctions. The Peace Prize belongs to Gaza’s journalists, not María Corina Machado!
To the Members of the Nobel Committee,
Shame on you for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado — a woman who openly supports genocide in Gaza and the violent overthrow of popular movements across Latin America.
Sadly, this is not surprising. Your committee once honored Henry Kissinger and other architects of war and injustice. It is now plain as day: the Nobel Committee continues to celebrate those who undermine democracy and human rights — those who design and defend the slaughter of innocent people.
Machado’s record stands in direct contradiction to the ideals of peace. She helped lead the 2002 coup that overthrew Venezuela’s democratically elected president and signed the Carmona Decree dissolving the nation’s public institutions. She has repeatedly called for U.S. military intervention, endorsed economic sanctions that have killed tens of thousands by cutting off food and medicine, and aligned herself with Israel’s apartheid regime, even appealing directly to Benjamin Netanyahu — the architect of Gaza’s destruction — to “help liberate” Venezuela.
True peacemakers do not call for bombs and blockades. They defend truth, justice, and the sanctity of human life. Today, that title belongs not to war collaborators like Machado, but to the Palestinian journalists of Gaza — those who have risked everything to show the world the brutal reality of Israel’s crimes.
For two years, these journalists have fought on a different front of war — the digital battlefield — documenting the first-ever livestreamed genocide, often by candlelight, in the ruins of their homes. They give names to the dead and voices to the silenced, even as Israel deliberately targets them. Over two hundred journalists have been killed since the genocide began — murdered for the crime of telling the truth. Killing journalists is a crime under international law. So why is a supporter of such lawlessness being celebrated as a “peacemaker”?
The courage and integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize is meant to honor the lives of Gaza’s journalists and civilians, not those who cheer on their suffering.
We, the people, uplift the people of Gaza — those who, even amid genocide, continue to show the world what real freedom, justice, and humanity look like. They have told their own stories so the world could witness the truth — and exposed the greatest purveyors of war and violence: the U.S. war machine and its closest ally, Israel.
Gaza’s journalists and civilians are the true peacemakers. They have already paid the highest price for peace.