Booksellers And Publishers Are Calling For Mosab Abu Toha To Be Protected.

A group of American booksellers, publishers, and authors person issued a statement calling for Mosab Abu Toha—the award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and librarian who was detained and beaten by Israeli forces arsenic he tried to fly Gaza pinch his young family successful November 2023—to beryllium protected successful nan aftermath of threats against him by a far-right Zionist organization.

Betar USA—an extremist pro-Israel activity which has targeted pro-Palestine activists and advocates, vandalized property, and openly called for vigilante unit against student protesters arsenic good arsenic for nan demolition of Gaza—has been supplying nan Trump management pinch “deportation lists” of individuals it believes are successful nan US connected visas and person participated successful pro-Palestinian protests, claiming that these individuals “terrorize America.” (The statement took in installments for the detention and threatened deportation of precocious graduated Palestinian Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil connected March 8, arsenic good arsenic for the abduction of Tufts University postgraduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on March 25.)

On a number of occasions complete nan past fewer months, Betar USA has used its charismatic X relationship to target Mosab Abu Toha, calling him a “jihadi” and urging migration authorities to deport him.

Abu Toha—who founded the Edward Said Library successful Gaza (which was destroyed earlier this twelvemonth by nan Israeli army) and who is currently a visiting clever clever astatine Syracuse University successful New York—had been touring nan state pinch his latest postulation of poetry, Forest of Noise, erstwhile threats from Betar forced him to cancel nan remainder of his engagements.

Unfortunately I had to cancel each my upcoming events successful nan United States arsenic I felt unsafe traveling, particularly aft watching students and assemblage professors abducted connected nan thoroughfare conscionable successful beforehand of different people. I had 16 events scheduled for nan adjacent 5 weeks (at Stanford,…

— Mosab Abu Toha (@MosabAbuToha) March 28, 2025

In response, Revolution Books of Harlem and respective different booksellers and publishers from astir nan state person released an unfastened missive declaring their “determination to take sides Mosab Abu Toha and to guidelines pinch writers successful nan cross-hairs of this fascist battle connected voices telling nan truth of nan subjugation of nan Palestinian people” and calling connected bookstores and different taste institutions to clasp readings of Abu Toha’s activity successful bid to raise consciousness of nan situation.

Toha, a Gaza autochthonal who conscionable yesterday received nan Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (for his New Yorker stories “on nan beingness and affectional carnage successful Gaza that mixed heavy reporting pinch nan intimacy of memoir to convey nan Palestinian acquisition of much than a twelvemonth and a half of war”) has each logic to beryllium fearful. Earlier this month, nan Egyptian writer and erstwhile governmental captive Abdelrahman ElGendy—another outspoken professional of Israel who has been targeted by nan anonymously-run doxxing website Canary Mission successful caller months—was forced to fly nan United States.

You tin publication nan Revolution Books missive successful its entirety, and taxable your sanction arsenic a signatory, here.