Shareholders Sue The New York Times Over Alleged Anti-Israel Bias

A group of minority shareholders in The New York Times Company filed a lawsuit against the company today (Wednesday), alleging that the newspaper is failing in its duty to provide readers with reliable information and to promptly correct reports found to be inaccurate. A central part of the allegations concerns the paper’s coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The lawsuit was filed in the New York State Supreme Court in New York County by the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA), which manages, among other things, the assets of state employee pension funds and holds shares in the company, as well as the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a research institute acting on behalf of investors and shareholders.

The plaintiffs are asking the court to require the company’s board of directors to provide them with internal documents that they say were requested four months ago, but which the company refused to release. Most of the requested materials concern coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas and the way the newspaper’s management oversees the newsroom’s compliance with journalistic standards.

The lawsuit also includes testimony from a Jewish whistleblower, a former employee of the newspaper who worked for nearly a decade on the video desk and left in March 2026. According to the complaint, between 2019 and her departure, she raised concerns at least 15 times about antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on the desk where she worked.

She says she raised the issue through every channel the company makes available to employees, including her managers, the standards desk, and human resources. In an interview with The Free Press, where she asked to remain anonymous out of concern for her family’s safety, she said: "The public deserves a better picture of how the Times produces the news when Jews or Israel are involved."