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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”
The Gateway Pundit ^ | October 11, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft

Posted on 10/11/2026 9:21:16 AM PDT by Red Badger

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.”

Maybe next year they’ll give the Chemistry prize to a Hamas bomb maker.

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) October 9, 2026

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.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, 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.”


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1 posted on 10/11/2026 9:21:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Go Garry!!


2 posted on 10/11/2026 9:21:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

The Ignoble Comedy is a bunch of retarded clowns. The Peace Prize is just another liberal, Golden Glob or Granny.


3 posted on 10/11/2026 9:25:26 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (What good is a "media" that never makes accusations and allegations against their Bros and Sisters.)
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To: Red Badger

They gave the peace Prize to Obama, who supported Hezbollah.


4 posted on 10/11/2026 9:26:51 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The Ignoble is just another Third World Participation Trophy with a little guy bowling on top. A UN style third world turd joke.


5 posted on 10/11/2026 9:29:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (What good is a "media" that never makes accusations and allegations against their Bros and Sisters.)
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To: Red Badger

Arafat got one...


6 posted on 10/11/2026 9:34:03 AM PDT by Does so (Book:"The Party of Death"...Dem☭¢rats ™ ® © ≣≣ ½⅓⅔¼¾ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ ⅓ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚)
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To: Red Badger
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”

I wouldn't be surprised.....

7 posted on 10/11/2026 9:35:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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To: CodeToad

Sickening.


8 posted on 10/11/2026 9:44:52 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Does so

Infuriating.


9 posted on 10/11/2026 9:45:01 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

“Peace Prize”

Seriously, I don’t know why anyone would want it. It’s downright Orwellian in who receives it.

The Pulitzer Prize is a joke. Given those who have received it, the Medal of Freedom is a toss-up.

Everyone is an “actor” until Academy Awards season. Then the actresses come out as actresses.


10 posted on 10/11/2026 10:00:45 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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The Pulitzer Prize is a joke.

The only good thing about the removal of honor from all these earthly prizes is that it helps to show the only prize worth obtaining, eternal life. (see tagline)

11 posted on 10/11/2026 10:21:58 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Red Badger

Mossad should award its own “prize” to this woman...


12 posted on 10/11/2026 10:32:44 AM PDT by kiryandil (I give up with this crew of trolls)
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To: Red Badger

True! He’s so right. But they already have given the peace prize to Arafat, a man with the blood of thousands on his hands.


13 posted on 10/11/2026 10:42:52 AM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: Red Badger

The Nobel prize committees have a long record now of being absolute leftist imbeciles, from awarding Obama simply because of his race to being too stupid to figure out who actually invented the MRI scanner. I just wish Garry hadn’t given them any ideas, because they are nutty enough to actually do this...


14 posted on 10/11/2026 10:56:10 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Red Badger

I tend to generally ignore the liberal, self-aggrandizing, back-patting circle-jerk called the Nobel Prize these days. Worthless junk these days, if you ask me.


15 posted on 10/11/2026 11:15:39 AM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: Red Badger; lightman; Navy Patriot

The same all-too-often misguided Norwegian Nobel committee once gave the Peace Prize to Barack Hussein obama!

Not good!


16 posted on 10/11/2026 11:16:06 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Red Badger

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17 posted on 10/11/2026 11:20:54 AM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi .issue vor in)
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18 posted on 10/11/2026 1:18:29 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Red Badger

Visualize whirled peas


19 posted on 10/11/2026 2:07:58 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: Red Badger

The fact that they awarded one of these to Obama tells you everything you need to know about their credibility. Zero. We have become the pinhead planet.


20 posted on 10/11/2026 3:54:09 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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