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The daughter of Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong revealed why the outlet allegedly made the bombshell decision not to endorse a presidential candidate this election cycle.

Nika Soon-Shiong, a 31-year-old progressive activist, posted a statement to X on Friday claiming that the paper made the decision as a way to push back on the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

"There is a lot of controversy and confusion over the LAT’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate. I trust the Editorial Board’s judgment. For me, genocide is the line in the sand," she wrote.

Soon-Shiong’s post received a "Community Notes" fact check from X, which cited Politico reporting and read, "The LA Times editorial board did not make this decision. The board voted to make an endorsement and were overruled by the owner, who is the poster's father. There is no evidence that his decision was even partly based on the Gaza conflict."

The activist, who displays a Palestinian flag on her X bio, composed several follow-up posts detailing how her parents’ own experience with Apartheid in South Africa influenced their decision.

In one, she stated, "The temptation is to speak in muffled tones about an issue the international courts have called a plausible genocide. But this moment requires opposition to crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and Apartheid – as my parents did in South Africa."

Her father replied to her comments with his own statement to The Times, his spokesman telling the outlet that Soon-Shiong is only speaking for her own opinion and does not speak for the Los Angeles Times.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Gabriel Hays