Pulitzer-winning Palestinian author confronts Saint Levant and Huda Kattan: ‘Do you really care about Gaza?’

Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha has publicly criticised singer Saint Levant and sweetness entrepreneur Huda Kattan, questioning the timing and tone of their new collaboration impressed by Palestinian identification.

The pair just lately launched a brand new shade of Huda Beauty’s Fake Filler Lip Oil known as Kalamantina – a reference to Palestinian clementine oranges – in tandem with the discharge of Saint Levant’s latest single of the identical identify. A promotional photoshoot for the product featured each figures posing in entrance of a automobile overflowing with the fruit.

In a publish on the model’s Instagram account, Huda Magnificence described the discharge as “for the homeland”, stating {that a} donation could be made to organisations supporting “Palestinian agriculture and cultural preservation”. The model didn’t, nonetheless, specify the quantity or whether or not it could mirror a share of the product’s proceeds.

Saint Levant, a part-Palestinian singer and rapper, additionally posted concerning the collaboration saying, amongst different musings, that he was “grateful” that the launch was “supporting Palestinian agriculture at a time the place settler violence and Zionist ethnic cleaning is rising”.

Abu Toha, whose New Yorker essay collection chronicling his life through the battle and eventual evacuation from Gaza earned him the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, commented on the publish on Monday, expressing frustration and grief over what he noticed because the disconnect between the marketing campaign’s messaging and the continuing humanitarian disaster in Gaza.