Leftists across America long have held, and exhibited, their bias against Israel.
Promotions for the “Palestinian” population in Gaza are common. Israelis are accused of “genocide” for no more than defending their land and families.
That’s evident among news organizations, too, despite the presumption that they would be neutral.
Now those allegations have been formalized, with a lawsuit by shareholders of the New York Times who are unhappy with the “biased coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.”
It was only a few years back when the terrorists of Hamas, a recognized terror organization, invaded Israel and slaughtered about 1,200 civilians and kidnapped another 250 in an act of war.
A report from the Washington Examiner now confirms those shareholders are suing the publication’s parent company, “alleging its board failed to properly oversee editorial standards and allowed biased coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.”
The legal filing comes from the State Board of Administration of Florida and the National Center for Public Policy Research.
They are asking a judge to order the newspaper board to turn over internal records “that the company has declined to produce for four months, most of which concern its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.”
The legal action relies partly on the testimony of a former Times worker who raised concerns about alleged antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on internal channels more than a dozen times in recent years.
“The employee used company resources to report what she considered violations of the paper’s editorial standards. The lawsuit alleged her complaints were not adequately addressed,” the report said.
The report reveals at one point a Times official insisted to the employee, “If you don’t like our values here, maybe you should go find a place whose values align with yours.”
The allegations include that “journalists” who publicly promoted Palestinians during the “war” didn’t face an appropriate review.
The lawsuit claims the Times’ “standards” for conduct included not signing petitions or participating in organized protests. But it alleges the board failed to monitor such limits adequately.
“The Florida AG and the National Center for Public Policy Research are not asking any court to review a headline or a source,” Mark Goldfeder, an attorney representing the shareholders, told the Washington Examiner. “We are asking who, if anyone, at the top of The New York Times Company checks whether the rules it publishes are followed.”
At issue are “fact-checking, source verification, and editorial review,” after incidents such as the publication of an opinion piece from Nicholas Kristof who wrote, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.”
In that piece Palestinians claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers.
The action seeks access to the company’s internal records so shareholders can investigate whether the board fulfilled its oversight responsibilities, the report said.
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[ H/T WorldNetDaily ]
