Take action: Unsubscribe The New York Times is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza, serving as a mouthpiece for American imperialism and shaping elite consensus around foreign policy. Times editors have told reporters to avoid “inflammatory terms” like “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “occupied territory” — and even to avoid saying “Palestine.” Headline writers have manipulated the English language and deployed tricks of syntax to obscure the U.S. and Israel’s perpetration of atrocities and blame Palestinians for their own oppression. Reporters have printed the Israeli military’s lies.
The Times’ commitment to Zionism is systemic and generational. For decades, critics of U.S. foreign policy have offered crucial analyses of the paper’s bias. This dossier borrows from and adds to that body of criticism by exposing the material and ideological ties to occupation and apartheid held by many high-ranking editors, journalists, and executive officers at the Times. The employees included in this dossier are individually as well as structurally incentivized to run cover for war criminals. That these individuals are empowered to frame the discourse around Israel’s genocide is an indictment of the entire institution of The New York Times.
Such an indictment demands a public response. Journalistic malpractice enables the weapons shipments that sustain the war on Gaza. The mass slaughter of a besieged people must be named for what it is: a genocide. The New York Times must be held accountable for its complicity. We continue to call on readers of the Times and members of the public to boycott, divest, and unsubscribe from the paper of criminal record. You can learn more about our campaign here.
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Levien was still serving on the advisory council of the B’nai Brith Youth Organization, whose goal is to foster support for Zionism among Jewish youth, when she became the CEO of The New York Times Company in 2020.
Kahn, whose father served on the board of Zionist media watchdog CAMERA, ordered a "racially motivated witch hunt" of his own staffers to stanch leaks about pro-Israel bias in the newsroom.
“Israel had me at hello.”
Kershner has cited her husband’s Zionist think tank at least 100 times since starting at the Times in 2007. Both her sons have served in the IOF.
From the Times’ stolen home in Jerusalem, Kingsley co-wrote in the poet and scholar Refaat Alareer’s obituary that he was “known for posting hateful comments about Israel and its citizens.”
“We should do everything to have a safe haven, to have a homeland, to have Israel, and defend it with whatever price.”
“In my three years and eight months of military service as a combat soldier in the IDF Special Forces, I trained and fought shoulder to shoulder with people who identify themselves as liberal, progressive, conservative, nationalist and even vegan.”
Rasgon was employed by two Zionist think tanks before he began at the Times. He still regularly uses one as a source.
“Some political opinions, like about abortion and Israel, are grounded in core values. I don’t think those change depending on where you grow up: I can’t imagine not believing in women’s rights to make their own reproductive choices, and in Jews’ rights to have a safe and democratic homeland.”
Leonhardt’s genocide denialism reached 17 million inboxes every morning for 17 months.
“I think [AIPAC] is an organization that does extremely important work. The people involved are exemplary citizens for promoting, on a bipartisan basis, to ensure a bond between the United States and Israel.”
Brooks described his son enlisting in the IOF during Israel’s brutal 2014 war on Gaza as “the right thing to do.”
The long-time Jerusalem bureau researcher and reporter had two sons serve in the IOF.
The Times of Israel called Halbfinger The New York Times’ “most Israel-friendly Jerusalem reporter.”
The former Times CEO has a long history of making news outlets more pro-Israel from the top down.
Keller held multiple stories at the behest of the White House.
“Everyone below Rosenthal spent all of their time trying to figure out what to do to cater to his prejudices.”
“I was much more deeply devoted to Israel than I dared to assert.”
Bronner worked as the Jerusalem bureau chief while his son served in the Israeli Occupation Forces.
The former IOF intelligence officer fabricated evidence to help produce “Screams Without Words,” the most damaging piece of imperial propaganda since the Iraq War.