The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has a European colonialism problem — and the record is staring everyone in the face.

For all the moral lecturing related to Greenland, one fact remains undefeated:

The Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize has never, NOT ONCE, been awarded specifically for anti-European colonialism, one of the monumental phenomena of the past 200 years, starting with the U.S.-led anti-European colonialism crusade epitomized in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine.

Plenty of prizes for “peace processes.” Plenty of prizes for “dialogue.” Plenty of prizes for “human rights,” all excellent and glorious, especially in the cases of Liu Xiaobo, the Dalai Lama, the Rev. Martin Luther King (HBD, Dr. King!), Bishop Demond Tutu, and so on.

But a direct recognition of anti-European colonial liberation? Never.

The closest they’ve ever come is 1996, awarding Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta — not for resisting European empire, not for confronting Portugal’s colonial legacy, but carefully framed as: “for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.”

Even there, the language is sanitized: “conflict,” not colonialism. Neutral phrasing for a story that was never neutral.

And then there’s the most infamous stain of all:
Mahatma Gandhi — snubbed FIVE TIMES. Nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and 1948 — and still ignored.

Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, just days before the nomination deadline, and in the end the 1948 prize wasn’t awarded at all, because the committee said there was “no suitable living candidate.”

Read that again.

The greatest symbol of nonviolent resistance to empire in modern history… and Europe’s highest “peace” institution couldn’t bring itself to do it.

And yes — even the committee later regretted it. But regret is cheap. History is permanent.

Now fast-forward to today, and look at the European moral theater playing out in real time:

Everyone in Europe suddenly has STRONG opinions about colonialism, domination, sovereignty, and “rules-based order” — whenever the villain is someone else.

But almost nobody in Europe is talking about the obvious truth sitting right on the map: Greenland is Denmark’s colonial possession.

It does not “belong” to Denmark in any moral sense — and Denmark is literally part of the European community.

So spare us the outrage soundtrack when the U.S. is involved.

Spare us the sermons.

Spare us the “values” branding.

Because as long as European institutions can spend a century giving awards for “peace” while never once directly honoring anti-European colonialism, the hypocrisy isn’t subtle — it’s structural.

The Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t just have blind spots.

It has an empire-shaped one.