Israeli ‘actor‘ – for want of a better word – Gal Gadot has been announced as the 2026 winner of the ‘Genesis Prize’, called by some ‘Israel’s Nobel Prize’, for her ‘wartime support of Israel’, to the shock of none but the horror of many.

Gadot’s “I stand with Israel” post is still online at the time of writing, after more than two years of genocide.

Gadot’s comments on Israel and its crimes in Gaza have included:

• denouncing calls for a ceasefire • declaring that everyone should side with Israel, because terrorism • whining that her Snow White film flopped because there is too much pressure on actors to condemn Israel (and her co-star – no speech marks – did, tweeting Free Palestine – and not because of her own support for genocidal Israel (and awful acting).

Gadot is also using Thatcher-era anti-union laws to prosecute seven UK anti-genocide activists for protesting outside a location where she was filming

Gal Gadot and ’empathy’

But astonishingly, in spite of this record Gadot’s award was also – according to its Zionist organisers – for her “empathy for all innocent people affected by the war”. To be fair, Gadot did once post – in 2018, long before the current phase of the genocide, that “It is not a matter of right or left, Arabs or Jews, secular or religious,” she said. “It is a matter of dialogue, of dialogue for peace, and of our tolerance for each other”.

However, in a stunning show of tolerance, she then deleted it. In 2021 she also posted that her “heart breaks” about the “vicious cycle that has been going on far too long”, ‘both-sidesing’ Israel’s occupation and slaughter of Palestinians. Of course, she did all this without even mentioning Palestine.

And in October 2023, she posted that “Killing innocent Palestinians is horrific. Killing of innocent Israelis is horrific. If you don’t feel the same, I think you should ask yourself why that is” – but deleted it soon after a “backlash from Israelis who viewed it as slanderous against Israel” and apologised for posting it.

Enter butcher Netanyahu

Not exactly a tower of empathy, then – but given the record of the foundation that administers the prize it’s hardly surprising that it would go ahead anyway.

The Genesis Prize Foundation operates in collaboration with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office and the World Zionist Organization’s ‘Jewish Agency for Israel‘. Unsurprisingly, then, winners of the prize since it was established in 2012 have included:

• Natan Sharansky – chair of the ‘Jewish Agency for Israel’ • late Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, an “establishment bigot” and “racist Islamophobe” who led racist “Flag Day” marches in Israel where far-right settlers shout “Death to Arabs” • billionaire Robert Kraft for his efforts to “combat the de-legitimization of Israel” and fascist Argentinian president Javier Millei for “his unequivocal support of Israel during one of the most difficult times since the founding of the Jewish State,

US Israel lobbyist Jonathan Greenblatt posted on X to congratulate Gadot on her ‘win’. However, he apparently felt he had to lock replies to prevent a flood of righteous outrage in the responses from anti-genocide human beings:

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