“Garry Kasparov” by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 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...
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