Palestinian author, Musab Abu Toha, wins the Politzer Award for Comment Media News

The poet receives the prestigious prize for New Yorker Articles on the physical and emotional massacre in Gaza amid the war.

The Palestinian poet Musab Abu Tuha, who was targeted by the pro -Israel groups in the United States, won the Politzer Award for Comment.

Abu Tawha won the prestigious award for the articles published in New Yorker “about the physical and emotional massacre in Gaza, which combines deep reports with the intimate relationship in the notes to transfer the Palestinian experience” in the war.

“I just won the Politzer Award for Comment,” Abu Toha wrote on social media. “Let her bring hope. Let it be a story.”

It seems that the comment is a tribute to his colleague, the Palestinian poet He refuses a alaare, He was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza in December 2023. Eliyer’s last poem was titled “If I had to die, then be a story.”

The Israeli forces in Gaza were detained in 2023 before their release to Egypt and then move to the United States.

“Last year, I lost many concrete parts of my memories – the people, places and things that helped me remember,” Abu Toha wrote in one of his articles in New Yorker.

“I have struggled to create good memories. In Gaza, every home is devastating a kind of album, not filled with pictures but with real people, and the dead pressed between its pages.”

In recent months, right -wing groups in the United States have called for the deportation of Abu Tuha in the center of A. campaign By President Donald Trump breaks the non -citizens who criticize Israel. The author has canceled events in universities in recent months, pointing to fears of his safety.

I just won the Politzer Award for comment.

Let her bring hope
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Musab Abu Tuha (mosabutoha) May 5, 2025

The Palestinian poet told Al -Jazeera Take Podcast In December that the feeling of the inability to help people in Gaza was “destroyed”.

Abu Tawha said: “Imagine that you are with your parents, with your brothers and children in a school shelter in Gaza.” “You are unable to protect anyone. You are unable to provide them with any food, with any water, with any medication. But you are now in the United States, the country that finances genocide. So, it is tragic.”

In other Politzer categories, the New York Times won prizes for illustrative reports, local reports, international coverage and photography of urgent news on Monday.

Through the four prizes, the New York -based newspaper has received most of the awards from the 14th Politzer Press competitions this year.

The award winners, named after the Hungarian newspapers, Joseph Politzer, are chosen by the Council of Journalists and Academics and announced the University of Colombia annually.

The New York Times won the International Reports Award to cover The conflict in SudanThey crossed the Washington Post, which was final in the category of “documented Israeli atrocities” in Gaza, including investigations into the killing of Palestinian doctors and journalists.

The post won the urgent news award to cover Trump Assassination During the campaign gathering last year. Reuters news agency received an investigation award for “boldly exposed the relaxation organization in the United States and abroad that manufacture fentanels.”