It’s an invasion: NYT finally gets ‘community noted’ for Israel-biased language

The deeply pro-Israel New York Times (NYT) has a long history of appallingly biased reporting of Israel’s crimes. It continues to be called out and exposed, but the X social media platform is finally catching up.

As one of many examples of its bias, the paper carried the notorious — and completely untrue — “Screams without words” atrocity propaganda piece. The article was written by an Israeli military propagandist with “no journalism experience” and made claims of rape and mutilation on 7 October 2023. The author had even admitted to one of its interviewees that it was “for Israel advocacy”.

New York Times doesn’t care about facts

Yet despite the complete debunking of all Israel’s atrocity propaganda and the outrage of victims’ families, the piece remains online. The only ‘correction’ the NYT has ever made to it is an amendment to the age of one of the discredited ‘witnesses’. It’s now well known that there is no evidence that any rapes were perpetrated during the raid, but this goes unacknowledged by the paper.

Fast-forward to 2026 and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon as part of its non-stop war crimes. That crime has displaced more than a million people. Israel has bombed family homes and razed entire apartment buildings to the ground. But to the NYT, it’s not an invasion at all. It’s:

expend[ing] the territory it controls in Lebanon, suggesting it might remain there beyond the fighting.

Israel has violently displaced the Lebanese population up to and even beyond the Litani river and has destroyed the bridges across it, but noooo, not an invasion. But self-evidently it is – and at last the paper’s nonsense got a ‘community note’ pointing this out:

NYT finally got a community note for its whitewashing language. pic.twitter.com/cZywaw4ZVa

— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) March 24, 2026

Pro-Israel bias

Of course, the NYT’s bias is not limited to one article, nor is the pro-Israel bias limited to the New York Times. UK ‘mainstream’ media is no better and the lack of proper free speech laws in the UK has seen gross misrepresentation of war crimes. Many ‘MSM’ have capitulated completely to Israel and its lobby and actively participate in Israel’s whitewashing propaganda. It has been exploited by the Starmer government to wage war on pro-Palestinian speech and objective journalism, too.

So much so that academic publisher Taylor and Francis has described this bias, higher than ever since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as an “ethical collapse”.

Nazi media bosses who promoted Germany’s Holocaust of Jews, Roma and others were tried at Nuremberg for their collusion in genocide and executed. One ‘community note’ may be a a tiny satisfaction, but trials at the Hague are the outcome demanded by justice.

Featured image via Britannica