He won a Pulitzer for his book on the Israeli occupation. Then came the cancellations.

[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nn(RNS) — On a stormy winter’s day on a precariously narrow road outside Jerusalem in 2012, an 18-wheeler collided with a Palestinian school bus and burst into flames.Nearly a decade later, American journalist Nathan Thrall wrote a book that followed the travails of a man who went searching for his 5-year-old son who was on that bus.
“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction last week, also tells a wider story of Israeli occupation and the separate and unequal lives of  Salama and the villagers of Anata, a Palestinian town just beyond the separation wall in Jerusalem. It turns a lens on the political and bureaucratic effects of occupation: the separate schools, roads, fire and ambulance services, hospitals, and a maze of color-coded IDs that allow or prohibit access to those places and services.
Thrall, who was born in California to a family of Soviet Jewish emigrés, has lived for more than a dozen years in Jerusalem, where he previously headed the Israel-Palestine Program for the International Crisis Group.
As if writing about an intractable political situation were not enough, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” was published on Oct. 3, just four days before Hamas invaded Israel and killed 1,200 people. That scuttled several book tour events and forced Salama, who had been traveling with Thrall …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]