Freed hostage Emily Damari to Pulitzer board: Mosab Abu Toha is 'the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier'

(JTA) - An Israeli released from Hamas captivity earlier this year is objecting to the Pulitzer Prize awarded to Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, charging that he is "the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier" because of his derisive comments about her and other hostages.

Emily Damari issued an open letter to the members of the Pulitzer Prize board on social media on May 8, saying that she had felt "shock and pain" when she saw that Abu Toha had received the prestigious award. She wrote, "This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Faceb...