Peace Prize winner Ebadi so far silent on whether Israel should be destroyed.
Iranian Shirin Ebadi won the Novel Peace Prize in 2003. (*)
Recently, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be wiped off the map. (†) Even the UN has derided Ahmadinejad’s comments. (‡)
To her credit, Ebadi has recently spoken out against her government in its detention of a journalist, Akbar Ganji. (§) To date, however, Ebadi has not publicly criticized Ahmadinejad’s blood-chilling genocidal statement.
In her speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Ebadi criticized Israel for not following UN resolutions.