MOSAB ABU TOHA, [email protected]
Author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza and Forest of Noise, Mosab Abu Toha has won a number of literary awards including the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for his commentary in The New Yorker. He is founder of the Edward Said Public Library and is available for a limited number of interviews. He has been abducted by the Israeli military and many of his relatives in Gaza have been killed. He now lives in upstate New York.
He regularly posts on X and on Telegram.
He highlights video of a “leaked conversation between Netanyahu and other Israelis from 2001. In it he said, ‘I know how they (Americans) are. America is something that you can easily maneuver and move in the right direction. And even if they say something, so then they say something, so what? 80 percent of Americans support us. It’s absurd.’”
He writes of Palestinians: “We were collateral damage. Now we are collateral news,” adding on Wednesday morning that in the past 24 hours Israel murdered over 140 people in Gaza, more than half of them while seeking aid.” His pinned post states: “Israel murdered this baby along with two of his siblings yesterday in Jabalia. … the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and others! … You justified his killing with your coverage, even before he was born. Even after his murder, you did not run a story on him. You dehumanized him and his family. You dehumanized all Palestinians, most of whom were born under occupation and siege.”
He notes that the Israeli government is preventing Israelis from leaving.
See his recent interview with Christiane Amanpour.