Utterly ridiculous from the Pulitzer Prize committee today.
This Pulitzer citation supposedly honoring 🇵🇸 journos doesn't actually do so.
"Journalists & media workers covering the war in Gaza" includes everyone, Palestinian or otherwise.
The citation fails to mention the nationality of the journalists who "died" (euphemism which downplays the worst recorded journo slaughter), or the identity of their killers, the Israeli army.
Please compare with the 2022 citation for 🇺🇦 journalists.
This special citation by the Pulitzer Prize committee is an insult.
To refuse to even mention that these are Palestinian media workers...and then to intentionally avoid distinguishing between those living and working in Gaza in extremely dangerous conditions and at risk of death at any moment...and everyone else covering the conflict remotely from North America or Europe, belittles the sacrifices of Palestinian journalists.
It's an attempt at sugarcoating Israel's direct role in their murders.
A far more proper citation was the one UNESCO made last week, which specified that it was honoring Palestinian journalists for its 2024 Press Freedom Prize. The UNESCO award failed to use updated figures for murdered media workers, and didn't identify the perpetrators of bloodshed.
But at least, this doesn't dehumanize Palestinians, as the statement names them and thanks them by adding that humanity has "a huge debt to their courage and commitment to freedom of expression."
Guess who won the Pulitzer for best International Reporting? The New York Times. Anat Schwartz et al.
Well oh well.
Zecharias Zelalem
Timnit Gebru (she/her).