The shareholders for the most infamous U.S. newspaper in circulation are holding it to account for the antisemitic and anti-Israel bile that has been replete throughout its reporting apparatus.
Shareholders launched a lawsuit against The New York Times alleging that the “paper has failed to meet its obligation: to tell readers the truth and correct itself in a timely fashion when it doesn’t.”
The suit, filed by the State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA) and the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), was first revealed in a September 23 exclusive by The Free Press. It petitions the New York County Supreme Court to “ to force the Times board of directors to hand over internal records the company has refused to produce for four months, the majority of which pertain to the paper’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.”
The news is especially timely, given that Yale School of Management Professor Edieal Pinker just released a damning analysis of 1,559 Times news articles from the October 7, 2023, terrorist massacre to June 7 2024. In short, Pinker conclusively determined “a dominant narrative consistent with a framing that assigns near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas’s role in sustaining the conflict.” Arguably nothing illustrates the blatant disdain for the Jewish State by the newspaper more than the recent humiliating Freudian slip by correspondent Isabel Kershner, who idiotically spun that “Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7” and suggested the wanton slaughter by Hamas terrorist of Israeli citizens was a matter of perception.
The newspaper has since deleted that disgusting sentence and dubiously claimed it was published in “error” in an editor’s note.
The Free Press reporter Maya Sulkin, who broke the story, summarized that the newly launched lawsuit “includes the testimony from a whistleblower, a former Times employee who is Jewish and spent nearly a decade on the paper’s video desk.” Per Sulkin, “the whistleblower raised concerns about antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on her desk at least 15 separate times between 2019 and her March 2026 departure, using every channel the company makes available to employees, including her managers, the standards desk, and human resources.”
The whistleblower reportedly told Sulkin that “The public deserves a better picture of how The Times manufactures the news when Jews or Israel are involved.” Given its history, this legal blowback has been a long time coming.
When the Gaza War was reaching a cresciendo just weeks after the October 7 attacks, the newspaper literally published fake news when it falsely accused Israeli Defense Forces of bombing al-Ahli hospital based purely on the word of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. But it gets worse. In the piece, “Israeli Airstrike Hits Gaza Hospital, Killing 500, Palestinian Health Ministry Says,” the outlet used a photo of the wreckage of a completely different structure.
As The Dispatch’s Jeryl Bier pointed out in a piece excoriating the newspaper, “the accompanying photo was not even of the hospital, but rather of a building in a city some 15 miles to the south.” Bier also concluded that The Times’s framing, bolstered by its misleading imagery, would “likely” lead Times readers to believe that the depicted carnage was of the “hospital in question.” The original, false story was plastered on the front page of the newspaper’s website with the misleading photo prominently displayed.
In another false story, The Times pushed a fake report of an emaciated child supposedly starving in Gaza to lambast the Jewish State when it later came to light that the child had “cerebral palsy” that was the root cause of his diminished appearance.
The track record of The Times has demonstrably been that it is nothing more than a repeater of Hamas, anti-Israel propaganda, as Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce CEO Duvi Honig rebuked in an exclusive interview with MRC Business in August 2025.
(From right to left: Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce CEO Duvi Honig with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara).
As being the de facto spokespeople for Hamas, Honig even went as far as to argue that the newspaper was endangering the very Palestinian people it’s supposedly advocating for:
They are hurting the Palestinian people, because the Palestinian people are not getting aid and food and at the same time they’re empowering Hamas who shoot them when they try to go to safety and they use them as human shields.
For the shareholders who have been watching The Times distort the truth in real time, enough was finally enough.
