Co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime Catherine Rampell (Catherine Rampell) asked Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha if he “would like to clarify” a Facebook post he wrote months ago about Israeli soldier Emily Damari, who was captured by Palestinian resistance fighters during the October 7 attacks. Damari,... recently freed, had expressed outrage at Abu Toha’s Pulitzer win in a letter to the Pulitzer board. She wrote: “He posted about me on Facebook and asked, ‘How on earth is this girl called a hostage?’” Abu Toha, a poet and survivor of Israeli detention, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his dispatches from Gaza in The New Yorker, chronicling life under bombardment and siege. His recognition marked a rare acknowledgment of Palestinian narratives in U.S. media.show more

@crampell @MosabAbuToha Love that he doubled down and spoke the truth

Leading psychiatrist says “this is the most important interview of all time, it solves the human condition, ends suffering & turmoil at its source & finally makes sense of our lives!”

@crampell @MosabAbuToha reminds me of that Dokoupil interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, blatant anti-Palestinian racism masquerading as journalism. Imagine speaking to a genocide survivor or refugee from any other conflict in this way. A masterful and restrained response from Mosab

@crampell @MosabAbuToha @crampell thousands of Palestinians suffer in Israeli prisons without charges or trial and we have lost count of the numbers killed by Israel, millions suffering. What is your point here? If it is sympathy, forget it.

@crampell @MosabAbuToha The way Western journalists speak to Palestinians, regardless of the circumstances, especially this week when Netanyahu has gone on record, saying explicitly his plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza, is astonishingly racist.

@crampell @MosabAbuToha I would’ve told her to fuck off. I said what I said. Israeli’s only came at him because a Palestinian was recognized at high regards and won an award. I hate these people so much. They want Palestinians to never succeed. Want us to sympathize with the people killing them.

@crampell @MosabAbuToha Mosab was incredible.

@crampell @MosabAbuToha the trained terr0rist is mad because he exposed her. who would have guessed? they look so proud when they commit their crimes unpunished

@crampell @MosabAbuToha The audacity of the reporter. These type of individuals just continually show that they really don’t give a damn about Palestine lives, sufferings or deaths! They are considered “less than.” Good for Mosab Abu Tosha standing his ground.

@crampell @MosabAbuToha *sorry sweetie, she has more in common with me than you do. you are demeaning a women!* there is no convincing or showing reality to someone who is purely the product of one script. hell of an attempt though

@crampell @MosabAbuToha She was a POW, as were most of them.