We've never seen THIS before - James Webb Space Telescope

Because of the way that light bends as it travels from one medium into another.

Not just like light bending going from air into water, but one density of the same medium, for example if it cools down or heats up, over a distance, as well as getting variations in its particle make up.
For example the way the steam from a kettle makes ripples in the light.

I really think that claiming a star is so many light years away, is very wishful thinking, by scientists putting blinders on, to push their beliefs.

Just to repeat my point for clarity:

Because light does not travel in straight lines. It bends as it travels from one medium to another, and variation of the density of a medium to another part of that same medium.
Contamination of particles and variation in density is part of every medium.
And we know that dark matter is a thing.
And on the scales of distances that we are talking about, it's very unlikely that the direction that we even are looking at a light source from, is actually the same direction that is actually is in.

To example it another way:
It's like the way that oil drill pipes don't drill in the exact direction where they end of the drill ends up underground, as variations in the rock, causes the pipe to bend as it goes down.
So if an oil drilling company wants to reach a very specific location, like in the rescue mission of the 33 trapped Chillian miners a few years ago. They don't aim the drill in the exact direction of the miners location. They drill in a different angle, knowing that the rock formation will bend the drill pipe as it goes down.
So with telescopes over light years, just because it seems like a universe or star system is X far away, in X location, you're probably wrong and won't know as long as our solar system and galaxy is the only direction that we are looking at it from.
Again, to summerize:
light bends as it travels threw different mediums, and variations in the density and types of particles in that medium.
We also know that dark matter is the vast majority of this medium and we don't know what that is made of or how it's density varies.
No offence. This isn't an attack or anything. Just an observation of the theory to consider.