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The Gaza War and Europe
An Israeli tank maneuvers, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, near the Israel-Gaza border, in Israel, July 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen
JNS.org – Europe borders the Middle East, and the continent cannot insulate itself from events in this region. Its options, however, are limited: Europe is hardly a strategic actor with the political will and requisite capabilities to intervene. Moreover, the Middle East is not easily amenable to foreign intervention. Nevertheless, Europe cannot ignore developments that impact its national security, and if it concentrates its efforts it may have a modest input in ensuring that pro-stability forces gain the upper hand.
The Gaza war reflects two important features of Middle Eastern politics, as well as the ongoing competition in the global system. In large parts of the Middle East, we see failures in grappling with the challenge of state building. The Hamas Islamist militia took over Gaza in a bloody coup in 2007, as the Palestinian Authority failed to maintain a monopoly over the use of force in the territory under its control. Palestinian Islamic Jihad operated alongside Hamas in Gaza, and several clans had armed militias. Similarly, militias are vying for control in Iraq (in the wake of the American departure), in Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Libya. Hezbollah, a Shi’ite militia, has taken over Lebanon, despite the parallel existence of a national government and army. Hezbollah started a war of attrition with Israel in October 2023 without consulting the Lebanese government.
The Gaza war is also a manifestation of Iranian ambitions for hegemony in a region once part of the Persian empire. Iran’s Islamic Revolution has sought to wage perpetual and unbridled holy war against Western civilization and to take over Sunni Arab lands—it also targets Israel in this jihad. Many of the region’s militias have been trained, equipped and supported by a religiously motivated Iran. While not all are fully subservient to Tehran, they act in unison against Israel and Western interests. Iran and its proxies are the main challengers to the status quo and are actively threatening the national security of Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt, Sudan and Israel. Recently, Cyprus, a member state of the European Union, was added to the list of threatened states.
The Gaza war also mirrors the main struggle in the international system against American predominance, that is being conducted primarily by the quartet of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. The war in Ukraine has strengthened this alliance. For years, Iran has conducted a multi-front war against Israel, an American ally, and the only state that has the power to oppose its aspirations in its campaign to drive the United States out of the region. The quartet shares this aim.
In the absence of the capability to defeat Israel on the battlefield, Hamas implements the Iranian-inspired strategy that targets its civilian population, hoping this will leave it under duress. The premeditated atrocities perpetrated and filmed on Oct. 7, 2023, were intended to terrorize Israeli citizens, in the same way as the missile attacks that rained down on Israeli civilians. Israel had no choice but to counterattack and to its dismay discovered global sympathy for Gazans (an overwhelming majority of whom have shown support for Hamas and the evil it committed on Oct. 7), accompanied by a huge wave of antisemitic acts and statements.
Europeans initially expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself, but much of their behavior (including their voting record at the United Nations) undermined Israel’s quest to destroy completely the military capability of Hamas and the efforts to increase pressure on the organization to secure the release of the Israeli hostages. Moreover, several European states recognized the non-existent state of Palestine, thus rewarding the dysfunctional Palestinian national movement and Hamas’s terrorist activities.
How can Europe play a more positive role in making the Middle East more peaceful? What can the Europeans do to curb the current inclinations in the region toward despotic regimes, terrorism, religious fanaticism and nuclear proliferation?
The developments in the Middle East have underscored an old truism. Outsiders have very little influence over Middle East outcomes; these are determined primarily by domestic forces and ingrained local political culture. Despite heroic efforts and vast financial investment, the United States has failed to create an Iraq in its image. Afghanistan was even more resistant to Western reform efforts. This should not be a surprise, as British and French colonial rule over several decades also did not change the way the “natives” conducted business.
Western attempts to intervene during the “Arab Spring” in Libya and Egypt ended in a similar failure. The ambitious project conducted by the European Union to create a “civil society” in the Palestinian territories has only enriched academics and cunning civilian entrepreneurs with little influence over Palestinian political culture. Political engineering by outsiders is doomed to fail in the Middle East. Therefore, an active interventionist European foreign policy to move societies into a democratic track is unlikely to produce positive results. Europeans tend to forget that it took European states centuries to adopt a democratic system.
Nevertheless, Europe or the European Union can do more to support pro-stability forces in the Middle East and weaken sources of instability. First, it should adopt a realpolitik lens and throw away its rose-tinted view of human nature. This is how Middle Easterners view the world. They often muse over European naiveté, which is occasionally despised. Similarly, the discourse about creating trust is simply nonsense in the region’s political parlance. Trust is not a currency used in Middle East politics. The employment of force and fear are more useful.
Some of the actors in the Middle East are evil, and engaging them diplomatically is rarely productive in limiting their mischief. Similarly, applying economic sanctions often has only meager results. Iran has been subject to such sanctions for over two decades without any change in its behavior. Europeans must overcome their reluctance to see military force as a useful tool in punishing and deterring destabilizing actors. Calling for restraint and fearing escalation when a bad guy is being beaten is counterproductive.
This means accepting Israel’s objective of destroying Hamas military capabilities in order to give its citizens a respite from missile attacks. Moreover, trying to save an Islamist mini-state that serves Iranian interests on the shores of the East Mediterranean is strategic folly; over-sensitivity to the human cost in eliminating it makes little strategic sense. Its location near the Suez Canal, an important choke point and sea route, as well as to offshore gas deposits, lends importance to who rules this area. The Europeans should appreciate efforts to minimize the presence on the shores of the Eastern Mediterranean of Islamic radicals whose influence has already spread to Turkey, Syria, Lebanon Libya and the Sinai Peninsula.
A new European attitude toward the use of force also means an understanding of Israel’s need to launch a war against Hezbollah to allow its displaced citizens to return home to a normal life. A military blow to Hezbollah may also provide an opportunity for Lebanon to free itself of Islamist influence and become the tolerant and prosperous state it once was. Moreover, it signals to Iran and its proxies that their actions carry costly consequences. Exacting pain for misbehavior is the ABC of international relations.
The timidity of the United States and its European allies in dealing with the Houthis, an Iranian proxy blocking the Bab el Mandeb Strait, an international waterway, is intriguing. Forcing naval traffic to go to Europe around Africa, instead of the Suez Canal, carries financial costs and inflicts significant damage to the economy of Egypt, a pivotal pro-Western state in the Middle East. Tolerating this situation only encourages Iran to become more aggressive in its actions in the region and less fearful of Western retaliation.
Indeed, nowadays Iran is the main source of trouble in the Middle East. If Europe is serious about minimizing the dangers emanating from the Middle East, it must adopt a more confrontational posture toward the mullahs in Tehran. This has become more urgent as Iran progresses quickly toward the bomb. Europe must support all actions, including the military option, to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power whose missiles can reach the old continent as well. Everything should be done to halt a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. A nuclear multipolar Middle East would become a strategic nightmare for everybody in the region and its vicinity. An Iranian nuclear umbrella for Tehran’s proxies would further embolden them. The United States, which is geographically remote from Iran and thus has a lower threat perception, needs a more energetic Europe particularly on this matter.
Europe must realize that constraining the activities of radical Islamists does not amount to Islamophobia. For example, the absurd distinction between the political and the military arms of Hamas is still accepted by some European governments. The radical anti-Western ideology of Hamas is inextricably intertwined with its violent modus operandi. Europe should outlaw Hamas in all its forms, forbid its fundraising activities and pursue all its supporters on the continent. This of course also holds true for Hezbollah.
This should not be construed as a pro-Israeli policy, but as a policy that strengthens moderate Arab states, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Jordan. They all abhor the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt and its offshoots such as Hamas in Palestine, as well as Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a large part of his Justice and Development (AK) Party. They are all concerned about the freedom enjoyed by the followers of this movement in Europe. The MB is a larger danger for the Arab states than for Israel. Europe should be critical of Qatar, which plays a unique role in destabilizing the Middle East by funding the MB, while its Al Jazeera media network is the MB’s mouthpiece in instigating against Arab regimes. Turkey, which hosts Hamas on its soil and spreads the MB message in Europe and elsewhere deserves similar critical treatment.
Europe should announce its full support for Israel with all its means if the Jewish state is attacked by a terrorist organization. Such a statement amounts to strategic and moral clarity. Europe’s human rights nitpicking for violations during warfare in Gaza are a result of ignorance regarding what a modern battlefield looks like and the unprecedented efforts by the Israel Defense Forces to limit the loss of civilian lives.
Europe should also overcome its obsession with the two-state solution. As noted, the Palestinians have failed miserably to meet the Weberian test of statehood—monopoly over the use of force. They established weak, corrupt and fragmented polities. The Palestinian political trajectory leads toward a civil war waged by a variety of militias, similar to other Arab states, or to a Hamas-dominated entity. Moreover, all polls show that the Palestinians are still far from relinquishing their revisionist dreams and becoming peaceful neighbors of the Jewish state.
The Palestinians’ real problem is not where the border between the Palestinian state and the State of Israel lies, but the very fact that there is such a border, because so many believe that there is no legitimacy for a Jewish nation-state in the Middle East. Pushing for Palestinian statehood at this stage will only increase the chances of a deadly Israeli-Palestinian war in which both sides will suffer, but in which the Palestinian pain will certainly be greater. The status quo—not ideal—is probably the less destructive alternative.
A peaceful Middle East is not on the cards anytime soon. Limiting the power of the bad guys is a realistic objective, however. In addition to a more astute American foreign policy, a coherent and realistic E.U. strategy toward the Middle East could contribute toward attaining such a goal.
Originally published by The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.
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We Must Give Our Jewish Youth Hope, Not Despair
College students hold dueling demonstrations amid Israel’s war with Hamas in April 2024. Photo: Vincent Ricci via Reuters Connect
Walk into any Chabad on campus, scroll through Instagram, or attend a panel on “Jewish identity in 2025,” and you’ll feel it: exhaustion.
The faces are younger, but the weight they carry is old — heavier than it should be for college students trying to find meaning, connection, and joy in their heritage. Antisemitism is surging, yes. The headlines are overwhelming. The betrayal of supposed allies stings. But here’s the deeper crisis we need to talk about: we’re burning out the very generation we’re trying to awaken. And we’re doing it with good intentions.
We’ve built an identity around crisis. Every gathering starts with the stats: “This amount of hate crimes.” “These many campus protests.” “These politicians failed us.” The algorithm serves us fear on a loop. The message? Being Jewish today means being a victim. Being Jewish means you’re losing. Why, then, are we surprised that some young Jews are opting out?
They aren’t indifferent. They’re uninspired. They’re not apathetic. They’re allergic to despair.
Victimhood Is Not an Identity
Jewish history is filled with trauma, but it is also filled with triumph. For millennia, our people have turned pain into purpose, exile into renewal, and scarcity into genius. We are not here because we were victims. We are here because we are survivors, builders, dreamers, and creators.
But in the last few years, we’ve allowed antisemitism to dominate the narrative. Every Jewish conference has a keynote on Jew-hatred. Our newsletters lead with the latest outrage. Our talking points are soaked in fear. The result? We’ve made Judaism feel like a burden, a fight, a cause to defend — rather than a light to share.
We’ve turned off the very people we need to turn on.
They Don’t Want a Protest Movement. They Want a Purpose.
Young Jews don’t want to be told their identity is something to protect. They want to be told it’s something to celebrate. And they want to celebrate it in their own way — not just through Holocaust remembrances and antisemitism awareness panels.
They want to build startups with a Jewish soul. Create art that reflects our ancient values. Reimagine what it means to be a Jewish leader in politics, tech, fashion, or sports. They want to innovate, not litigate their existence.
And we should let them.
If we only hand them a Judaism defined by its enemies, we shouldn’t be surprised if they reject it. If all we offer is a defense mechanism, why would they embrace it with pride?
Being the Light Isn’t Just a Slogan
The world doesn’t need more Jewish martyrs. It needs more Jewish mentors.
We must tell stories of Jewish greatness — not to brag, but to build. To show that our strength is not theoretical, but proven — and that being Jewish is not about surviving the storm; it’s about being the lighthouse.
We’ve produced scientists who changed medicine. Filmmakers who shaped global culture. Economists, engineers, scholars, and soldiers. The IDF doesn’t just defend Israel — it’s a school of leadership, innovation, and moral clarity. The same values pulse through the veins of Jewish entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and changemakers everywhere.
This is the Judaism that inspires. Not one built on fear, but one built on fire.
Let’s Not Scare Them Into Silence
There’s another danger to our obsession with antisemitism. We’re not just exhausting our youth; we’re intimidating them.
If every interaction with Jewish life feels like a moral war zone, many will choose to remain on the sidelines. Not because they don’t care, but because they’re overwhelmed. We’ve created an emotional toll booth at the entrance to Jewish identity. Pay in trauma, or move along.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Do you know what’s actually countercultural? Joy. Confidence. Pride.
Instead of telling young Jews how bad it is to be hated, let’s tell them how good it is to be chosen. Not “chosen” in the arrogant, exclusivist sense that critics distort — but chosen to bring light, to pursue justice, to elevate the mundane.
Being Jewish isn’t about what others think of us. It’s about what we think of ourselves.
You want to energize a generation? Tell them the truth: Judaism is not the losing team. It’s the longest-running success story in human history. We are a tiny people with a massive legacy. We don’t need pity. We need purpose.
From Complaint to Campaign
Let’s be clear: fighting antisemitism is essential. But it cannot be our identity. It must be a chapter, not the cover.
The future of Judaism won’t be written in the language of grievance. It will be written by those who build, create, and lead with confidence –who wear their Jewish identity not as armor, but as a beacon.
The next generation doesn’t want to join a protest. They want to join a movement. Not just against something. But for something. For beauty. For wisdom. For joy. For life.
Let’s give them that movement. Let’s give them that story. Let’s give them back their pride.
Steve Rosenberg is the Principal of the Team GSD, the Regional Director for NAVI in Philadelphia and the author of the book: Make Bold Things Happen: Inspirational Stories from Sports, Business And Life.
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A View From the Classroom: The War Against Israel on Dutch University Campuses
March 29, 2025, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands: A pro-Palestinian demonstrator burns a hand-fashioned Israeli flag. Photo: James Petermeier/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect
Outside of America, the war against Israel is also being fought on European university campuses — a second, often overlooked front.
While most attention is focused on the US, equally troubling developments are unfolding across Europe — particularly in the Netherlands.
Maastricht University exemplifies this concern. Student organizations like Free Palestine Maastricht (FPM) routinely host demonstrations marked by extremist rhetoric, inciting violence and antisemitism. Chants include explicit calls for violence such as “Long live the armed resistance, there is only one solution, Intifada revolution,” and “Falasteen horra horra, el sahyouni barra barra” (Palestine free, Zionists out), creating a deeply hostile environment for Jewish students and faculty.
Beyond rhetoric, FPM engages in fundraising disguised as humanitarian aid, funneling funds to extremist-linked entities in Gaza.
One Gazan recipient, the Sanabel Team, publicly celebrated antisemitic violence against Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans in Amsterdam in November 2024, framing these acts as continuations of Hamas atrocities on October 7, 2023. Alarmingly, FPM reposted and endorsed the chilling call: “Kill all Zionists.”
After platforms like PayPal and GoFundMe blocked extremist fundraising, FPM continued through direct transfers and cash collections, coinciding notably with reports of severe financial difficulties faced by Hezbollah, Hamas’ ally.
Faculty complicity further deepens the crisis. A lecturer from Radboud University in Nijmegen reposted propaganda from Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, implicitly endorsing violence. He also explicitly called for disrupting a lecture by Syrian peace advocate Rawan Osman at Maastricht University, enthusiastically acted upon by FPM. The event escalated dangerously, prompting municipal authorities to advise its termination. Protesters surrounded the building, aggressively banged on windows, hurled antisemitic slurs, and attendees required police protection to exit. Subsequently, Jewish students who organized the lecture were denied permission for future events, while FPM continues freely.
Both Nijmegen and Maastricht universities have historical connections with Samidoun, designated by several countries as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist entity. Samidoun advocates for prisoners involved in terrorism, amplifies extremist rhetoric, and participates actively in anti-Israel propaganda.
Maastricht University maintains partnerships with Iranian universities linked to Iran’s extremist regime, yet simultaneously froze ties with Israeli institutions after FPM occupied a faculty building’s garden, declaring it a “Zionist-free” zone. This double standard underscores alarming institutional complicity. Additionally, FPM has spread the shocking accusation on social media that the Hebrew University of Jerusalem uses stolen Palestinian organs for scientific research — a modern revival of antisemitic blood libels — yet Maastricht University has taken no action against this dangerous and inflammatory propaganda.
This troubling climate exists on campuses across the Netherlands, as confirmed by recent research conducted by Dr. Eliyahu Sapir and myself. Our findings document widespread intimidation, threats, and explicit antisemitism at Dutch universities, including professors penalizing students who object to antisemitic remarks, campus protests equating Israel with Nazi Germany, and confrontations specifically targeting visibly Jewish students.
Campus-driven extremism directly impacts Dutch policy and public opinion. In 2024, intensified activism led the Dutch Court of Appeal to halt exports of essential components for Israel’s F-35 jets. Public opinion has also shifted markedly; an April 2025 Ipsos poll revealed 54% of Dutch citizens now support harsher policies toward Israel.
These campus developments mirror shifts within the Dutch government. Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp consistently aligns his rhetoric with Hamas, advocating ceasefires to facilitate hostage releases, rather than insisting on the prior release of hostages. He criticized pro-Israel groups, labeling their humanitarian support for Jewish settlements “undesirable,” yet offered no similar scrutiny to Hamas-linked funding groups. Veldkamp even prematurely suggested Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu could face arrest due to an ICC ruling, deliberately setting a confrontational diplomatic tone.
The gravity of this situation is internationally recognized. At the upcoming European Jewish Association (EJA) Annual Conference in Madrid (May 12–13, 2025), over 150 Jewish community leaders will address antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment on European campuses, highlighting Maastricht as a key example.
Given this hostile climate and complicity in extremist activities, Israel should seriously reconsider academic partnerships with Dutch universities. Taking decisive action would send a clear message: institutions tolerating antisemitic propaganda must face meaningful consequences.
There are few dissenting voices against this extremist narrative — I am one of them. Consequently, I have received racist and sexist slurs, faced online death threats explicitly stating that I am a legitimate target to be destroyed, vaporized, or made to “disappear.” I have found pigeons slaughtered on my car, and my car door smeared with blood. These attacks are not personal; they are part of the broader war against Israel.
Let’s win it.
The author is Associate Professor at Maastricht University.
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Disgusting News: Pulitzer Prize Winner Excused Abduction of Israelis by Hamas
Released British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari arrives at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, after being held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, in this image obtained by Reuters on Jan. 19, 2025. Photo: Maayan Toaf/GPO/Handout via REUTERS
The Pulitzer Prize was awarded last week to a Gazan poet who excused the abduction of Israelis by Hamas, HonestReporting revealed on exclusively, while calling for the prestigious award to be rescinded.
Mosab Abu Toha, who also spread antisemitic content and fake news on his social media platforms, won the top honor in journalism on Monday (May 5) for his essays published in the New Yorker describing the ongoing war in the enclave.
But it seems that both the magazine and the Pulitzer committee failed to check Abu Toha’s virulent social media posts against Israeli hostages whom Hamas brutally abducted on October 7, 2023.
HonestReporting exclusively shared these posts with Fox News Digital, which reached out to Abu Toha, The New Yorker, and the Pulitzer Prize organization for comment.
Meet Pulitzer Prize winner Mosab Abu Toha. He justifies the kidnapping of Israelis on Oct. 7.
We aren’t going to congratulate him for his prize. Instead, we’re going to ask @PulitzerPrizes whether they bothered to check his social media.
Because we did, and it’s not pretty.
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— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 7, 2025
“How is this girl called a hostage?”
Abu Toha, who currently lives in the US, specifically disparaged female Israeli hostages, questioned their hostage status and implicitly justified their abduction.
Toha posted the following about Israeli hostage Emily Damari on January 24, 2025:
How on earth is this girl called a hostage? (And this is the case of most ‘hostages’). This is Emily Damari, a 28 UK-Israeli soldier that Hamas detailed on 10/7… So this girl is 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?’
Damari, an Israeli civilian, was shot twice and abducted from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7. Hamas held her for 471 days. But Abu Toha thinks that she cannot even be considered a hostage because she was a “soldier.”
A similar post by Abu Toha, posted on February 3, 2025, targeted former Israeli hostage Agam Berger:
The Israeli ‘hostage’ Agam Berger, who was released days ago participates in her sister’s graduation from an Israeli Air Force officers’ course. 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 whom CNN, BBC and the likes humanize in articles and TV programs and news bulletins.
Hamas held Agam Berger hostage with none of the rights due to a prisoner who has gone through a legal process. But that doesn’t matter to Abu Toha.
Toha also cast doubt on the forensic evidence that showed that the Bibas children — 9-month-old Kfir and Ariel, 4 — were killed by their captors.
Toha posted February 21, 2025:
Shame on BBC, propaganda machine. IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said ‘forensic findings’, which have not been seen by the BBC, suggested the boys had been killed with ‘bare hands.’ If you haven’t seen any evidence, why did you publish this. Well, that’s what you are, filthy people.
An Israeli forensic analysis found that the two small boys were killed by the murderers’ “bare hands.” Heart-wrenching footage from October 7 showed Shiri Bibas and her two boys being kidnapped from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Abu Toha’s rush to cleanse Hamas of their brutal murder could be considered to be justifying it.
Antisemitic Slurs
Other posts by Abu Toha constitute a clear violation of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism.
When Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimeh was arrested by Swiss police in Zurich, Abu Toha blamed “the Zionists,” echoing antisemitic tropes about Jewish control over state bodies, government, and the media.
Another pattern in Abu Toha’s posts is the demonization of Israeli soldiers and symbols. According to Abu Toha, Israeli “terror soldiers” celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah is “what true antisemitism looks like.”
He also thinks that Israeli soldiers’ blood is forfeit when they are off duty — implicitly supporting harming Israeli civilians, most of whom served or still serve as reservists in the IDF due to Israel’s mandatory conscription law.
In another breach of IHRA’s definition, Abu Toha minimized the Holocaust by comparing it to Gaza’s “genocide.”
Abu Toha also seemed to mouth Hamas propaganda and fake news, accusing Israel of having bombed Al-Ahli Hospital in the Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023. In the initial hours after the blast, mainstream media outlets parroted claims made by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry that Israel bombed the hospital, killing as many as 500 people.
But international authorities quickly concluded that it was the hospital’s parking lot that was hit by a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad missile, resulting in a death toll a fraction of what Hamas had first alleged.
A Blemish on the Pulitzer Prize
The exposure of Abu Toha’s posts prompted HonestReporting executive director Gil Hoffman to call for the prize to be rescinded:
The Pulitzer Prize is the top award in journalism and should not be blemished by bestowing it to a man who repeatedly twisted facts,” Hoffman said. “Abu Toha justifies abducting civilians from their homes, spreads fake news, and calls lighting a Menorah on Hanukkah antisemitism. That doesn’t sound prizeworthy to me.
Hoffman’s words are all the more poignant given that last year, HonestReporting campaigned against giving the Pulitzer Prize to photographers who crossed the border from Gaza with terrorists on October 7, 2023, and broke both physical and ethical boundaries.
When Reuters won the prize for international photography, there were no pictures from that day in the winning bid. Reuters later confirmed that images obtained from infiltrators were deliberately excluded so the win would not be marred.
Meanwhile, Israeli Consul General in New York, Ofir Akunis, told Fox News Digital that “these posts are an absolute disgrace, and this man should be condemned for his comments, not given a Pulitzer Prize. Reading these posts should make any decent person absolutely sick to their stomach.”
HonestReporting believes it’s necessary to unequivocally condemn Abu Toha and rescind the prize if the Pulitzer organization wishes to uphold its reputation as a beacon of excellence and ethics in journalism that must not be tarnished.
HonestReporting is a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.
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