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Briahna Joy Gray Fired From ‘The Hill’ After Eyeroll Segment With Sister of Hamas Hostage

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.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E6Rk3abIBo

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 interviewvideo 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:

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:

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:

She also accused pro-Israel Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) of being involved in that alleged campaign to get her fired:

Predictably, her defenders are saying she’s a victim of “cancel culture” from people who are allegedly intolerant of criticism of Israel:

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:

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:

Bingo.

— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —

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Comments

Boo whoo! Where’s my hanky?

Good, it’s about time something like this happened.
She will cry racism no doubt

AF_Chief_Master_Sgt | June 8, 2024 at 6:46 pm

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.

    AF_Chief_Master_Sgt in reply to AF_Chief_Master_Sgt. | June 9, 2024 at 9:48 am

    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.

stevewhitemd | June 8, 2024 at 7:22 pm

I do wonder if Ms. Gray has commented publicly today about the hostage rescue — or did she limit herself to a double eye-roll?

    diver64 in reply to stevewhitemd. | June 9, 2024 at 7:35 am

    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.

      Milhouse in reply to diver64. | June 9, 2024 at 8:38 pm

      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.

        AF_Chief_Master_Sgt in reply to Milhouse. | June 9, 2024 at 10:09 pm

        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.

destroycommunism | June 8, 2024 at 8:26 pm

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.

      diver64 in reply to Tiki. | June 9, 2024 at 7:36 am

      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.

    BL771 in reply to irv. | June 9, 2024 at 2:06 pm

    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?)

    DaveGinOly in reply to irv. | June 9, 2024 at 2:32 pm

    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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    diver64 in reply to Tiki. | June 9, 2024 at 7:38 am

    I find Greenwald quite good and pretty honest which is a rare thing in journalism. What is your specific problem with him?

      guyjones in reply to diver64. | June 9, 2024 at 9:30 am

      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.

      Meadow in reply to diver64. | June 9, 2024 at 1:23 pm

      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

        diver64 in reply to Meadow. | June 9, 2024 at 1:26 pm

        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

        Milhouse in reply to Meadow. | June 9, 2024 at 8:41 pm

        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.”

        What about those who started with the correct opinion, which subsequent facts have only confirmed?

ThePrimordialOrderedPair | June 8, 2024 at 10:46 pm

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.

“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.

    smooth in reply to diver64. | June 9, 2024 at 7:54 am

    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.

Alex deWynter | June 9, 2024 at 5:42 pm

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that idiot woman before thrashing around like a cranky toddler trying to debate Ben Shapiro.

Believe it or not, some journalistic outfits do have standards out there, and perhaps The Hill is one of them.

If it did it would have fired her months ago.