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Even after 28,000 deaths in Gaza, Palestinians continue to be silenced and dehumanized by mainstream journalists like New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who recently set off a firestorm by comparing Arabs and Muslims to insects and spiders.

Meanwhile, the New York Times has repeatedly heeded complaints from a far-right, pro-Israel pressure organization by publishing corrections or making changes to published stories.

By complying with Israel’s sanitized narrative, the corporate news media is giving Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu the cover they need to continue this brutal war. At The Intercept, we refuse to give in to the pro-war status quo — and we’re investigating the media’s pro-Israel bias.

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The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis has obtained hundreds of corrections across the media, including dozens at the New York Times, since 2000 over coverage the group deemed to be insufficiently pro-Israel, including during the ongoing war in Gaza.

CAMERA’s targeting of the Times has been particularly aggressive, with tactics like buying billboards outside the New York Times’s headquarters.

Since Israel’s war on Gaza began, the Times has removed the use of the term “occupation” from a description of Israeli military forces and altered language describing Palestinian deaths in Gaza at CAMERA’s request.

The Intercept’s journalists have been investigating media bias toward Israel — and this is just the latest. Our reporting also exposed how CNN routes almost all Israel and Palestine coverage through a Jerusalem bureau, where it could be subject to the Israel Defense Forces’s official censor.

And we analyzed over 1,000 articles from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, where we found a consistent bias: Words like “slaughter,” “massacre,” and “horrific” were used almost exclusively when Israelis were killed, rather than Palestinians.

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