Committee To Protect Journalists Ousts Anti-Israel Heiress From Its Board As Group Launches Full Review of Its Controversial 'Journalists Slain in Gaza' List

Biotech heiress Nika Soon-Shiong announced on Monday that she was booted from the Committee to Protect Journalists' board of directors and blamed a Washington Free Beacon report on her anti-Israel activism for prompting the embattled organization to cut ties.

Soon-Shiong—the publisher of Drop Site News and daughter of the South African biotech billionaire and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong—wrote she was informed Sunday evening that the CPJ nixed her board position as the New York-based advocacy group faces mounting pressure over its widely cited list of journalists killed in Gaza, which has included dozens of confirmed military operatives for Hamas and other jihadist groups.