Briahna Joy Gray Fired From ‘The Hill’ After Eyeroll Segment With Sister of Hamas Hostage
“It finally happened. The Hill has fired me. There should be no doubt that @RisingTheHill has a clear pattern of suppressing speech — particularly when it’s critical of the state of Israel.”
The Hill‘s Briahna Joy Gray is claiming “speech suppression” and racism and her defenders are yelling “cancel culture!” after she was handed her walking papers Thursday, two days after a portion of an interview with the sister of Hamas hostage Romi Gonen went viral for Gray’s abhorrent treatment of her guest.
Gray, who was the national press secretary for Bernie Sanders’ failed 2020 presidential campaign, was seen at the end of a Rising segment Tuesday rolling her eyes when the guest, Yarden Gonen, pleaded with her to believe the documented instances of rape and torture suffered by Israeli women at the hands of Hamas terrorists:
When Yarden Gonen told Gray that she hopes she believes female victims who say they were sexually assaulted by Hamas terrorists, Gray rolled her eyes and abruptly ended the interview, video shows.
“I really hope that you, specifically, will believe women when they say that they got hurt,” Gonen said.
Gray lets out a sigh, appears to roll her eyes and says, “All right thanks for joining. Stick around,” as Gonen is still trying to get a word in.
Watch:
Anti-Israel TV presenter FIRED, 2 days after shocking disrespectful exchange with the sister of an Israeli hostage.
The Hills’ Briahna Joy Gray sparked outrage for her interview with Yarden Gonen, the sister of Israeli hostage Romi Gonen live on air on the ‘Rising.’
During… pic.twitter.com/z5j5p9igPs
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 7, 2024
On Thursday night, Gray announced that she had been given 30 days notice of her contract termination. She also proclaimed, without evidence, that her firing came as a result of her criticism of Israel:
It finally happened. The Hill has fired me.
There should be no doubt that @RisingTheHill has a clear pattern of suppressing speech — particularly when it's critical of the state of Israel.
This is why they fired @kthalps, & it was only a matter of time before they fired me.… pic.twitter.com/lLqgWjgOIV
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) June 6, 2024
Naturally, Gray is portraying herself as the victim of a “coordinated effort” to have her fired for supposedly speaking truth to power on the Israel issue or whatever. Perhaps feeling liberated, she accused her critics of “Zionist racism,” while also tweeting and retweeting some pretty despicable things and people, confirming she was a Hamas rape denier in the process:
We already knew this bc of excellent reporting by independent left outlets, but The Hill fired me for pushing back against a guest who tried to use the platform to spread the mass rape hoax, & congress members like @RitchieTorres lie about it almost daily. https://t.co/Ag0XXKteRu
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) June 7, 2024
Briahna Joy Gray responded to being fired by retweeting Nazi accounts, including this insane rant referring to the sister of a 10/7 hostage who she dismissed along w 10/7 rape atrocities as a “Zionist propagandist freak”
Gray is a truly despicable and evil person. The people who… pic.twitter.com/nTbMkiUBws
— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 7, 2024
She also accused pro-Israel Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) of being involved in that alleged campaign to get her fired:
Instead of apologizing for the callousness she displayed toward the family member of a hostage, Briahna Joy Gray is blaming Israel (as well as myself) for her firing.
Scapegoating Jews—the Jewish people or the Jewish State—is what antisemites do to absolves themselves of… pic.twitter.com/TRB95FFrAH
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) June 8, 2024
Predictably, her defenders are saying she’s a victim of “cancel culture” from people who are allegedly intolerant of criticism of Israel:
“Cancel culture is bad unless the person is being cancelled on behalf of my favorite foreign nation” – Dave Rubin https://t.co/PJpMoBf1Q6 pic.twitter.com/OYphOVvpXt
— Dave DeCamp (@DecampDave) June 6, 2024
Remember all the screeching about "cancel culture" and people in media losing their jobs for expressing wrong or supposedly bigoted views?
The vast majority of those screaming about that grievance will celebrate this, because they only object when their own views are banned: https://t.co/dzg37SSVI0
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 6, 2024
What her supporters won’t tell their viewers and readers, however, is that in reality this has nothing to do with “cancel culture.” Gray has been a non-stop critic of Israel since October 7th, with the Rising video catalog filled with segments since then where Gray was allowed to freely express her oftentimes bigoted opinions about Israelis and the stories about the atrocities committed against them by Hamas.
At the same time, she’s made her opinions about Israel well known on her Twitter/X page as well, and presumably was never warned about it by the higher-ups at The Hill (we’d have heard about it had that happened, surely).
This has been going on for eight months. So no, this isn’t about mere criticism of Israel.
While The Hill isn’t commenting on what led to Gray’s firing, I suspect her recent remarks on Hamas supposedly just trying to build a democratic society as well as the eye-roll segment were the straws that broke the camel’s back for Hill brass:
Briahna Joy Gray claims that Hamas has no interest in killing all the Jews in Israel. It only wishes to establish a state “like what we have here in the United States.”
To Gray, October 7th was not a massacre of Jews. It was simply an attempt at democracy-building by Hamas. pic.twitter.com/NLlCqInMXY
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) June 1, 2024
Believe it or not, some journalistic outfits do have standards out there, and perhaps The Hill is one of them. There’s this thing called “responsibility” in journalism, and whether you are a supposedly objective reporter or an opinion writer/commentator, there is an unspoken but understood rule about how you conduct yourself, how you frame your stories/arguments, and how you treat your guests.
Passionate back and forth is one thing, as is constructive criticism of tactics. But denialism about things that actually happened, like the rapes, torture, the baby beheadings, and the rationale behind the Hamas attacks, is something else altogether. It’s beyond simply being rude and displaying unprofessional behavior. It’s grotesque, a bridge too far, akin to 9/11 conspiracy theorists and denialism, which few people in this country tolerate.
Couple that with the eye-rolling and disrespect shown to a distressed relative of a Hamas hostage, and you’ve got a recipe for someone to be handed their pink slip.
Some final thoughts from Gray’s critics, including Torres:
I have as much sympathy for Briahna Joy Gray as she has for the hostages. None. pic.twitter.com/7s0vr1saJN
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) June 7, 2024
Your long-running experiment in determining exactly how much public anti-Semitism your employer would tolerate has finally delivered a conclusion. You should be filled with the satisfaction any social scientist feels at such a moment. https://t.co/Ei8AbXAD6i
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) June 6, 2024
How it started How it’s going pic.twitter.com/JSegDBXV1T
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 7, 2024
How it started vs how it’s going pic.twitter.com/zgF67hZRpQ
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) June 7, 2024
Briahna Joy Gray's problem isn't that she disagrees with America's relationship with Israel, or that she's anti-Zionist, Ms. Gray's problem is that she really hates Jews and supports having unrestrained savagery visited upon them.
— Joanne Mason (@JoanneMason11) June 7, 2024
The only person who got Briahna Joy Gray fired is Briahna Joy Gray. https://t.co/C73EYBrpWK
— Strxwmxn (@strxwmxn) June 7, 2024
Bingo.
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“Heiiiiiiiiiii-dy ho!”
🙂
Boo hoo where’s my honkey. Sorry. Had to …
Now that made me laugh
Me too!
Good, it’s about time something like this happened.
She will cry racism no doubt
She cried racism the minute she was given her walking papers. That’s typical behavior for blacks when they are held responsible for their actions.
Strange there was no racism at The Hill until she got canned.
And even prior to her canning, she said, in context, that she was bulletproof; due to the obvious inference of her race.
Well, that didn’t work. Thank God.
Already claiming racism, the fallback of every Affirmative dud.
Test:
White conservative “journalist” rolls eyes when interviewing family member of 10 yo child abducted and raped by Boko Haram. Said journalist is a denier that Boko Haram has abducted and raped children.
Does conservative journalist get fired?
No. Conservative journalist gets convicted of civil rights violation charges and spends 15 years in prison.
That did not happen.
Apparently, some failed the test. Some of our gentle readers here at LI need explicit instructions on how to find their ass without using a flashlight and a map.
The test was: using my example above, if the conservative journalist got fired, then the same would apply to Brianna Joy Gray.
MTED gets extra credit.
No, MTED descended in to paranoid fantasies.
Your hypothetical was stupid because it’s something that would never happen, and it’s obvious that if it somehow had happened the person would of course be fired. MTED instead spun a paranoid fantasy that would be literally impossible
No, because that would never happen in the first place.
I do wonder if Ms. Gray has commented publicly today about the hostage rescue — or did she limit herself to a double eye-roll?
That was appalling to say the least. When the sister of a current hostage of those terrorist bastards is speaking to let out a sigh and roll your eyes then there is no place for you in polite society much less a news organization. The quality of that skank showed when she immediately went to cancel culture and racism.
Hmm. But suppose some “Palestinian” woman came forward spinning a cock and bull story about Israeli soldiers gang-raping her or some such obvious lie. Sighing and eye-rolling would then be completely justified. These things can’t be judged in the abstract, without a background knowledge of the real world.
Your hypothetical is stupid because it would never happen
Bullshit. It could easily happen tomorrow. They’ve already started making such allegations, now all they need to do is produce someone female to claim it happened to her.
Their method is to accuse Israel of everything they do. Whatever they do, Israel did. That’s how they’ve been operating for a long time.
She probably busy getting hired by Columbia University for their new Hamas Studies department.
Good.
More like this, please.
it wasnt jsut an eyeroll
it was the whole dismissive nature of the blmplo towards a fellow human beings need for sympathy met with the animalistic uncaring of a soldier in the by any means necessary army
Yeah. She’s woke red guard.
I’ll wager that she’s the author of endless woke workplace agitprop and dissension. That’s all these people ever do. The Hill would rather have us believe that a eye roll led to her firing rather than admit they’ve been captured by the red guard.
I bet she was a joy around The Hill. She is that person that makes a workplace hell for everyone around her but as long as she is the center of attention she doesn’t care.
The eye roll and associated behavior was unprofessional. Even putting aside the blatant bias, she’s poor at her job.
THIS^^
It’s like a person gets hired as a lifeguard but wont go near the water.
Or a hospital nurse who walks out of the hospital when her shift ends, even when one of her patients has just gone into cardiac arrest.
She should not be in that job.
Btw would anybody have any inkling who she even is if it were not for her abhorrent behavior?
What a world .
(Anybody else get the sense that this woman is filled with rage? Envy?)
Bingo. That’s what she was fired for – she acted in an unprofessional manner with an interviewee who deserved at least some respect, and certainly not dismissiveness. She wasn’t fired for her opinions of Hamas, Israel, or Jews. She was fired for expressing those opinions in a manner that reflected poorly upon her employer.
Glenn “sock puppet” Greenwald’s “I’m the arbiter of all things free speech” persona grates big time. He’s an amoral man hiding behind a self-serving shield of journalistic morality – all of it claptrap.
On the autism spectrum he’s
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I find Greenwald quite good and pretty honest which is a rare thing in journalism. What is your specific problem with him?
Greenwald is viciously, dishonestly and irrationally anti-Israel in his attitudes, like so many stupid and morally bankrupt leftists. Another reprobate who’s incapable of criticizing goose-stepping Islamofascism and Muslim supremacism, and, who deems the genocidal, belligerent, Fakestinian Arab invaders from Arabia to be alleged victims whose ideological predilections and behavior are beyond reproach.
Greenwald seems unable to adjust his views based on new data.
He’s not a self hating Jew, he’s an I’m Above Every Single One Of You reprobate.
Anyone who has not modified their opinion of Hamas/Iran /Israel /Middle East /United Nations at this point , even a tiny bit can no longer claim “intellectual honesty” or “objectivity.”
At this point he’s just a fool.
A fool with an ability to expound on television.
When they say that they’re victims, and that that justifies murder and rape and kidnapping ……. that’s like saying it’s ok to murder your next door neighbors family because their kids sometimes leave their wiffleball in your yard
I haven’t seen that from him but I just read the free stuff from him that shows up, I don’t subscribe to his substack
What about those who started with the correct opinion, which subsequent facts have only confirmed?
They are called “Islamophobes.”
The Hill was an anti-Western, anti-human sack of wet feces for ever having hired this Briahnhah thing.
Of course, that’s not news.
OT but Babylon Bee worthy
https://twitter.com/USMiniTru/status/1799170551329522152
LOL.
“Believe it or not, some journalistic outfits do have standards out there, and perhaps The Hill is one of them. ”
Odd statement since it took them 8 months to get rid of that terrorist supporting anti semite.
If she hadn’t got caught on camera, she’d still be cracking jokes with her other like minded “journalists” still working there.
Briahna Joy Gray let the mask slip a little bit and showed the true face of leftist media. But this is who they are.
Don’t worry too much about Briahna Joy Gray. I think she has a bright future at CNN.
Another utterly vile, evil, black Dhimmi-crat Jew-hater, racist and useful idiot apologist for Islamofascism and Muslim supremacism.
It occurs to me that the Jew-hate and anti-Israel venom that the vile Dhimmi-crats and their Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist allies have gleefully incited, ginned-up, rationalized, feted and lauded, driven by moral fecklessness and stupidity, and, crass electoral gain, will not be put back into the bottle. These reprobates have uncorked evil and propaganda slanders not seen since WW2. This won’t end well, mark my words.
Some people are reflexively contrary.
In my own opinion there’s something sick — damaged — going on with these people psychologically.
About 50 years ago there was a psychiatrist Thomas Szasz MD who wrote a book The Myth Of Mental Illness.
Now, objectively, if you’ve never been around folks labeled “mentally ill” then fine. But for a psychiatrist to go around saying that psychosis is a myth, that’s just off the charts irrational.
But the guy would get invited to conferences, and I think he wrote more than one follow up book.
(He didn’t argue that there was over-diagnosis, btw)
Nobody would pay a wit of attention to glen greenwald if he did not say the objectively ridiculous things he says . He reminds of Dr. Szasz. Damaged, damaged people.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that idiot woman before thrashing around like a cranky toddler trying to debate Ben Shapiro.
I really want to see that mental midget go up against Shapiro. Lambs to the slaughter comes to mind
Found the video. Wasn’t her, was an equally brain-dead woman named Seacrest who apparently was given a doctorate in something.
https://youtu.be/qSmiZCQP58o?si=20YF4mZK9CRWhItZ
If it did it would have fired her months ago.
…or hired her in the first place.