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SvennoJ on 06 May 2025
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Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha received the prestigious award on Monday for his essays that focused on the “physical and emotional carnage in Gaza”, published in The New Yorker magazine.

In a brief post on social media, Abu Toha wrote: “I have just won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Let it bring hope. Let it be a tale.”

His words were an apparent reference to fellow Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2023.



Protesters at New York fashion gala say ‘the Met has blood on its hands’

Pro-Palestinian protesters have again taken aim at one of the fashion world’s biggest nights as the Met Gala got under way in New York’s Manhattan on a rainy Monday night.

Protesting to highlight the genocide in Gaza, demonstrators gathered about a block away from the gala as the area immediately around the Metropolitan Museum of Art was cordoned off by police.

Video clips shared on social media showed some protesters hopping over barricades as they marched in the rain through Central Park towards the events and its celebrity participants who have been accused of flaunting their “extreme wealth and materialism” while Israel perpetrates genocide in Gaza.

“Not a single food or aid truck has entered Gaza for two months, leading to mass starvation of the Palestinian people,” the Within Our Lifetime protest group wrote in a post on social media.

It’s the second year in a row that protests have taken place outside the gala.

Last year, an online movement emerged calling for the blocking of celebrities on social media who had attended the Met Gala and were seen as being insensitive towards, or even supportive of, Israel’s killing of Palestinians and destruction of Gaza.