One of the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prize – Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha – disputed whether the Bibas family was murdered by their captors and argued that Israeli hostages should not be called hostages.
Jerusalem Post This was first revealed by the watchdog HonestReporting, which also called for Abu Toha’s award to be rescinded.
HonestReporting researched Abu Toha’s social media history, which it claims is “virulently” antisemitic and anti-Israel. The watchdog then shared these posts with Fox News Digital, which reached out to Abu Toha, The New Yorker, and the Pulitzer Prize organization for comment.
In his social media posts, Abu Toha “specifically disparaged female Israeli hostages, questioned their hostage status and implicitly justified their abduction,” HonestReporting said.
On January 24, 2025, Abu Toha posted a picture of then-hostage Emily Damari,saying, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” “This soldier who was close to the border with a city that she and her country have been occupying is called a ‘hostage?”
Emily Damari was shot in the hand on October 7 and lost two fingers. She was held hostage in Gaza for 471 days before being released in the 2025 hostage deal.
Hi X 🤟 thanks for all the love 💛
On October 7 I was shot in my hand and leg, last week I finally had surgery to help the pain.
I embrace my hand, my leg and my scars – to me they represent freedom, hope and strength.
I thank G-d, the IDF, and everyone who fought to give me… pic.twitter.com/nfrNhtdBEV
— Emily Damari (@EmilyDamari1) March 2, 2025
On February 3, 2025, he made a similar post about Agam Berger, calling her an “Israeli ‘hostage'” in inverted commas.
“These are the ones the world wants to share sympathy for, killers who join the army and have family in the army! These are the ones who CNN, BBC, and the likes humanize in articles, TV programs, and news bulletins.”
Furthermore, after then-IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari told the BBC that Kfir, Ariel, and Shiri Bibas were shown by forensic evidence to have been murdered by their captors, Abu Toha said, “shame on BBC, propaganda machine.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday morning, “The State of Israel bows its head to two small children, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, and to Oded Lipshitz, one of the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz. All three were murdered with terrible cruelty in Hamas captivity in the first weeks of the war.”
He has also used antisemitic dog whistles in other posts, HonestReporting claimed. When Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimeh was arrested by Swiss police in Zurich, Abu Toha said it was the result of “the Zionists.”
HonestReporting executive director Gil Hoffman released a call for the prize to be rescinded, saying, “The Pulitzer Prize is the top award in journalism and should not be blemished by bestowing it to a man who repeatedly twisted facts.”
In recent months, right-wing groups in the US have called for deporting Abu Toha amid a campaign by President Donald Trump cracking down on noncitizens critical of Israel. The author cancelled events at universities in recent months, citing fears for his safety.
Pulitzer Prize what is that compared to a can of pork and beans in your hand and hungry it don’t compute peoples values need a wake up realignment .
We Believe in Israel are asking people to contact the Pulitzer Board here: https://www.webelieveinisrael.org.uk/pulitzer_must_retract_award_to_hamas_apologist_writer
They won’t care. Pulitzer. Is now like the Nobel peace prize – non-terrorists need not apply.
“Non-terrorists need not apply.”
I like that one.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, Mohammed Yunus, a radical Jihadi pig, happens to be a Nobel prize winner in Economics.
Most of these Nobel Prizer terrorists are in “Peace, Literature, and Economics.”
Not in Physics and Chemistry which is dominated by Jews ….and there are quite a few Hindus as well …Chandrashekhar, CV Raman, Hargobind Khurana, Ramakrishnan. (Physics or Chemistry)…this is the real Nobel PRIZE where you need to make a real contribution to science……no one beats the Jews though…on a very different level.
There have been 1-2 Moslame Nobel prize winners in core sciences but more so, in recent years owing to political correctness.
A vast majority of Moslame Nobel Prizers are in “peace” category. 😂😂♥️ ….a good example being Palestine Islamic terrorist Yasser Arafat.
Radical Jihadi Moslems are one and the same. They’re someone’s butt boys.
I hate moslems in the Springtime. I hate moslems in the Fall. I hate moslems in the Summer when it sizzles. I hate moslems most of all. Why, oh why hate moslems. Why, oh why do I hate moslems … they are the vilest creatures of all.
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