New York Times Removes Line Appearing to Question Israelis as Victims of Oct. 7

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As covered by Legal Insurrection, The Times of Israel recently reported on the finalized version of a peer-reviewed study conducted by a Yale School of Management professor that concluded The New York Times was inherently biased against Israel, and that its coverage of the Hamas terrorist attacks on 10/7/23 and the war between Hamas and Israel that followed is reflective of that bias.

“The study analyzed 1,559 articles about the conflict in The New York Times from the date of the Hamas-led onslaught that launched the war on October 7, 2023, through June 7, 2024,” the news outlet shared. They added that the study revealed that “the coverage often omitted Israeli military losses, Hamas terrorist casualties and Palestinian violence after the October 7 attack, while often reporting on Palestinian suffering.”

The study also “argued that the coverage ‘assign[ed] near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas’s role in sustaining the conflict.’”

Though the paper proclaimed in response that any suggestion of bias one way or the other was false, it didn’t do itself any favors this week after publishing a report in which the following lines were included (bolded emphasis added):

“Israelis are deeply divided over how to apportion blame for the policy, military and intelligence failures that preceded the attack and the war. But Israelis still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.“

The link to the story is here. An attempt to search for an archived version of the original report was unsuccessful, but the Times acknowledged in an update to the story that the line was there, but that it was kept in due to a supposed “editing error”:

Editors’ Note:

Sept. 16, 2026

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article included a statement that was intended to convey Israelis’ perception of the government’s military response to the Oct. 7 terror attack in relation to the attacks, but inadvertently suggested that Israelis’ experience as terror victims was a matter of perception. It has been removed from the article.  

Needless to say, outraged readers weren’t buying it:

Substacker Stephen M. Miller pegged it on the nose:

That was nothing more than a disingenuous attempt to seek attention and stoke outrage by misrepresenting the events of October 7th. In the 3 years since that day, you have led the way on misreporting on the event, its human toll, and resulting societal shifts and growing antisemitism.

Just like none of us should ever forget about 9/11 and 10/7, we should also never forget the “New York” part of The New York Times, that is, the fact that this paper is primarily written and published in the city with the largest Jewish population in the world. Yet they consciously chose to publish this purported “editing error,” calling into question whether Jews were the real victims of the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks, anyway. Think about it.

– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –

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