| "All the Consent That's Fit to Manufacture" | |
| Website | newyorkwarcrimes |
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The New York (War) Crimes is a bi-monthly protest publication associated withWriters Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) inparody ofThe New York Times.[1][2][3] It is published as a printed newspaper and website.[4]
The New York (War) Crimes (NYWC) formed as an ad-hoc collective adjacent to theWriters Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG).[5] In an interview inThe Baffler, a collective of editors ofThe New York (War) Crimes described the beginning of its newspaper as "a piece ofagitprop for protest against theNew York Times" that became more of a movement outlet.[4] They decided to targetThe New York Times because of what they see as alongstanding bias in favor of the Israeli military,[5] arguing that "when there’s no way to write a headline that will otherwise exculpate the Israeli army, they’ll just print a headline with no verbs."[4] The collective chose to target it in particular because they see it as thenewspaper of record of the US and the West, and they see its prestige, malfeasance, and complicity as exemplary.[4] According to the collective,The New York Times is "essentially state media, they have the same consent-manufacturing function, but they operate under a conceit of independence, journalistic integrity, and the pursuit of noble truth or whatever."[4]
Its first issue in November 2023 consisted of threebroadsheets with the names of the 7,000 dead that theGaza Health Ministry reported killed by Zionist forces.[4] It drew inspiration from the 1989ACT UP andGran Fury projectNew York Crimes,[6][5] a mock version of theNew York Times made to draw attention to the paper's "malfeasance" in the mass death of theAIDS epidemic, as well as an actual issue[7] fromNew York Times during theCOVID-19 pandemic that featured a front page filled entirely with columns of names of the dead as the US death toll approached 100,000.[4]
The New York (War) Crimes also exists as awebsite launched "to present the case against theTimes systematically, including detailed analysis of their Palestine coverage and extensive historical background of their complicity with U.S. empire from Guatemala to Iran to Vietnam."[4]
On September 28, 2025, photographer Alexa Wilkinson was arrested and charged with a felony hate crime, with a complaint written by aNew York Police Department (NYPD) detective citing a video onTikTok containingNew York War Crimes infographics over shots of vandalism at theNew York Times Building.[8]
