A Pulitzer Prize administrator mocked a conservative journalist and member of its nominating jury for questioning why the group gave an award to an anti-Israel journalist who downplayed Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
Eliana Johnson, editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon, was invited this year to serve on the five-member jury for the Pulitzer Prize’s National Reporting award. But after the Pulitzer’s Commentary award went to Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha — who objected to the media describing an Israeli victim of the October 7 massacre as a hostage — Johnson had questions.
As she wrote in the Free Beacon this week, Johnson asked Pulitzer Prize administrator Marjorie Miller several questions about the prize, most notably, whether or not “members of the Pulitzer board themselves aware of Abu Toha’s public statements?”
The statements in question had to…
