I friend of mine is a Nobel Prize nominee. It’s not hard: all it takes is someone with vaguely convincing creds to write a letter to nominate you.
In his case, he asked a University teacher friend of his to write the letter. And just like that, he was nominated. He’d been putting “Nobel Prize nominee” on his resume to impress potential employers for decades.
He’s a head of state. That automatically qualifies him to nominate people.
Of course, the Nobel committee is also perfectly free to say “This nomination of a fucking fascist by a fucking genocidal maniac…Should we do a Kissinger again or shall we just close the file and go have a beer instead?”
I friend of mine is a Nobel Prize nominee. It’s not hard: all it takes is someone with vaguely convincing creds to write a letter to nominate you.
In his case, he asked a University teacher friend of his to write the letter. And just like that, he was nominated. He’d been putting “Nobel Prize nominee” on his resume to impress potential employers for decades.
Netanyahu’s credentials should automatically disqualify him from being able to nominate anyone.
He’s a head of state. That automatically qualifies him to nominate people.
Of course, the Nobel committee is also perfectly free to say “This nomination of a fucking fascist by a fucking genocidal maniac…Should we do a Kissinger again or shall we just close the file and go have a beer instead?”