Anyone who knows anything about the history of the @nytimes and its ownership by the Ochs/Sulzberger family, knows this is a flat-out lie:
nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opi…
Adolph Ochs to Lillian Wald, Sept 5, 1929. Quoted in Jerold Auerbach, Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel, 1896-2016.