An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Europe.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) said that they “strongly disagree” with the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award the prize to Maria Corina Machado, who they said “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”.

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    Thank you for posting this, OP.

    Sweet lord, this was the best the opposition in Venezuela could do?

    And this person won the Nobel Peace prize? It’s disheartening.

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      Trump is putting his army in front of Venezuela because the US wants to steal the oil.

      Give the US puppetet known for nothing noteworthy the last few years a ‘nobel peace prize’, then stage a coup in Venezuela and install the ‘nobel peace prize winner’.

      This has to be the most obvous psyop ever. At least it’s clear now that the ‘nobel peace prize’ is basically a CIA endorsement.

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        Truth is that Nicolas Maduro is using Chevron to export 1 million barrels of oil a day at sanctioned price to, guess who?

        Not China, Not the EU, not Brazil, the good old USA. Now help me here with this logic of stealing oil they’re getting at a discounted price in exchange of what? I’m. Not following your logic.

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    Lol, she dedicated the prize to Trump, and called him to say she will accept it in his honour.

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    If she renounced the far-right, they’d strip her of the prize. They specifically awarded her because of her far-right position.