Sensitive man cries himself to sleep because NYT wont call Israel-Hamas war a genocide, wants $50 million: lawsuit

A very sensitive Manhattan man is suing the New York Times for $50 million because it won’t call the Israel-Hamas war “genocide” — causing him to “cry himself to sleep” and feel “gaslit” by the paper, according to a bonkers new lawsuit.The blubbering Big Apple resident Timothy Murphy is seeing red over the Gray Lady’s coverage of the war in Gaza, which he claims is “hoodwinking” readers by covering up “Israel’s genocide.”Murphy insists that a leaked internal memo instructing editorial staff to restrict use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” when reporting on the conflict promotes anti-Palestinian “propaganda,” according to the suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court in April.“The New York Times — in order to deceive the public about Israel’s genocide — forbade (among other words and phrases) the use of the word genocide,” the lawsuit states.“Forbidding the use of the word genocide serves no purpose other than to hide genocide.”The memo, written by the paper’s international editor Philip Pan and its standards editor Susan Wessling in November 2023, was leaked and reported by The Intercept the following year, according to the lawsuit.It instructed journalists covering the Gaza war to limit use of the words “genocide” and  “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land.“‘Genocide….has a specific definition in international law.

[W]e should generally use it only in the context of those legal parameters.We should also set a high bar for allowing others to use it as an accusation, whether in quotations or not, unless they are making a substantive argument based on the legal definition,” the memo stated, according to the lawsuit.Murphy, however, insists the paper should use the “conventional” definition of “genocide” when reporting on harm done to Palestinians.

He claims that definition is: “The systematic and w...