What we want is for the New York Times to no longer have the power to change the story,

to tell lies and to spin Zionism as anything other than what it is, which is a settler

colonial project bent on the extermination of the Palestinian people.

There are these moments that are very clear where a line has to be collectively drawn.

Our commitment is to not allow these structures of cultural propaganda to function as though this is normative or to keep going without any interaction in an actively antagonistic way. The Welcome to the death panel.

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I'm Beatrice Siler Bolton, and today I'm here with my co-host, Tracy Rosenthal.

Hi, and today we're joined by two guests, Laura Shea High and Sophie Lewis. All are members of Writers Against the War on Gaza, known as Wawwag, and my co-host, Tracy, is also a part of Wawwag. Lara, welcome to the death panel. Thanks so much for having me. And Sophie, welcome to the death panel. Hi. Great to be back. I'm really excited for this conversation today.

Together with many others, all of you have helped organize a contributor boycott of the New York Times,

which is a growing campaign of refusal that, as of the time of recording, hundreds of writers have

signed onto. If you're a longtime listener of Death Panel, you might remember our episode from

about this time last year with Wawag about a readership boycott and subscription boycott that they and allied groups launched, which was urging people to cancel their subscriptions to the times and divest from an institution that for decades has manufactured consent for U.S. and Zionist violence. That call was about the

power of withdrawal, refusing to fund propaganda, refusing to accept neutral reporting on genocide.

But this new campaign builds directly on that momentum and raises the stakes. It's a boycott

by contributors, by writers, essays, scholars, artists, photographers who have published in or been

invited to contribute to the Times opinion section.

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