A former New York Times employee — Jewish, working on the video desk — raised concerns about anti-Israel bias in the paper's coverage fifteen separate times between 2019 and March 2026. The Times refused to turn over four months of internal records related to its Israel-Hamas war coverage.

So the shareholders sued.

The lawsuit, filed in New York County Supreme Court, was brought by the National Center for Public Policy Research and petitions for disclosure of the internal records the Times has been sitting on. Separately, the State Board of Administration of Florida has joined the legal pressure. As NewsBusters' Joseph Vazquez reported, the case centers on whether the paper's editorial decisions have damaged its credibility and, by extension, shareholder value.

This isn't conservatives filing a grievance. These are the people who own the stock.

The evidence they're pointing to isn't subtle. Yale School of Management professor Edieal Pinker analyzed 1,559 New York Times articles published between the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks and June 7, 2024. His findings documented systematic bias in how the paper framed the conflict — consistent patterns in sourcing, language, and editorial emphasis that tilted coverage against Israel.

Then there are the specific stories. The Times ran a report on October 17, 2023 blaming Israel for bombing al-Ahli hospital in Gaza — using a photograph taken fifteen miles from the hospital. The story was wrong. The photo was wrong. The Times published it anyway. In another case, the paper ran a story about an emaciated child starving in Gaza. The child had cerebral palsy.

Times correspondent Isabel Kershner offered what Vazquez described as a "Freudian slip" in a line that was later deleted: "Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7." Not "are the victims." View themselves as the victims. Of a terrorist attack that killed 1,200 people. Babies were slaughtered. Women were raped. Children were taken as hostages. The sentence was scrubbed, but the screenshot wasn't.

"The public deserves a better picture of how The Times manufactures the news when Jews or Israel are involved," Maya Sulkin wrote in The Free Press.

Duvi Honig, CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, put the human cost plainly in an August 2025 interview: "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."

The Times could have released the records. Four months of internal communications about editorial decisions during the most consequential Middle East conflict in a generation. Instead, they forced their own shareholders to go to court to get them.

Fifteen times, an employee told them something was wrong. They refused the records. The shareholders filed in Supreme Court.

The Times still has the records.