2010 Gaza flotilla raid, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was careful to distinguish between Maguire's nonviolent resistance aboard the Rachel Corrie, which he referred to as "a flotilla of peace activists – with whom we disagree, but whose right to a different opinion we respect," and the conduct of the activists aboard the other six vessels, which he described as "a flotilla of hate, organized by violent, terrorism-supporting extremists." Gideon Levy strongly defended Maguire in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in October 2010, calling her "the victim of state terror" after Israel refused to allow her to enter the country and kept her detained for several days. See also List of female Nobel laureates List of peace activists International Fellowship of Reconciliation PeaceJam References Bibliography External links Peace People Mairead Corrigan Maguire Peace People International Fellowship of Reconciliation Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Peace Heroes Irish Nobel Prize winners The Best Question Nobel Women's Initiative 1944 births Living people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Nobel Peace Prize laureates Nobel laureates from Northern Ireland Nonviolence advocates Pacifists from Northern Ireland People deported from Israel People from Belfast People of The Troubles (Northern Ireland) Roman Catholic activists Roman Catholics from Northern Ireland Women activists from Northern Ireland Women in the politics of Northern Ireland Women Nobel laureates 1976 in Northern Ireland 21st-century politicians from Northern Ireland 20th-century politicians from Northern Ireland