The former hostage wrote to the board on social media: ‘This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it’
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The former hostage wrote to the board on social media: ‘This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it’ |
By Matthew Kassel
A former British-Israeli hostage who was held by Hamas in Gaza for 15 months spoke out against the Pulitzer Prize Board on Thursday for bestowing an award to a Palestinian poet who has disparaged victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and appeared to legitimize the abduction of hostages, among other comments that have stirred controversy.
Emily Damari, who in January was released from Hamas captivity after she was shot and taken from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel on Oct. 7, expressed outrage at the Pulitzer committee board over its decision to honor Mosab Abu Toha, a Gazan-born writer whose New Yorker essays on the war-torn enclave won the award for commentary on Monday. |
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