By Connor Lālea Hampton, September 1, 2025The New York Times has described the Palestinian genocide using words like “war” and “conflict,” but those terms aren’t accurate. If journalists can’t use words backed by human rights organizations, then what’s the point of covering anything accurately at all? While Western journalists were censoring Israel’s war crimes, Wizard_bisan1 and publications like Al Jazeera were reporting on them in real time. When journalists soften their words to cover the war crimes in Palestine, we pretend like something bad isn’t happening. If we must be anonymous to speak the truth, then journalism has truly failed.