🕊️ ⚖️ 🇺🇳 🇳🇴 🇺🇸 @ReedBrody tells Amy Goodman of @democracynow that the @NobelPrize Committee awarding its Peace prize to Navi Pillay is a “stinging rebuke to Donald Trump”. “The Nobel Committee did not mention Trump, but his name was omnipresent in what they said. Donald Trump is sanctioning judges, fighting for a world in which might makes right, in which there is no accountability. And Navi Pillay represents the exact opposite of that: the rule of law, accountability for the worst crimes, the rule of law rather than the law of the jungle. Navi Pillay was the head of the UN Independent Commission that was looking into abuses in the occupied territories. And she found reasonable grounds to believe that Israel was committing genocide. And she backed that up with thousands of interviews, through forensic proof. And I think around the world people can cite the work that Navi Pillay has done on this. When people say that Israel is engaged in genocide, they have this imprimatur from a quasi-judicial body of the United Nations, led by one of the most distinguished judges in the world. I think that’s the most important thing here. I mean, we are living in a moment, as you have had on your show several times, in which the entire architecture of international law and accountability is under attack. The United States, which has vowed to dismantle the International Criminal Court, the court that she used to sit on, brick by brick, which is sanctioning the judges, like she was once a judge of the ICC. We understand new sanctions from the United States are coming down. And here is somebody who represents the exact opposite, who represents exactly that so-called international law, those rogue international judges that the United States is going after. So this is such an important moment. Amy Goodman: “And interestingly, she got the news in Nuremberg, Germany, the significance of Nuremberg and the Nuremberg trials for the establishment of international law.” Reed Brody: “Absolutely. I mean, Nuremberg is the genesis of international accountability. It’s the genesis of “never again.” It’s the first international tribunal that held state actors responsible for crimes against humanity, which talked about aggression as the supreme international crime. Nuremberg stands for this idea that no one is above the law. And very importantly, the United States, Russia, France, and Great Britain were the powers that created the International Military Tribunal. And the U.S. prosecutor, Judge Jackson, said, you know: “We are… it’s the Germans who are in front of us today, but this law has to apply to everyone.”