Briahna Joy Gray Fired From 'The Hill' After Eyeroll Segment With Sister of Hamas Hostage (2024)

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:

WhenYarden Gonentold Gray that she hopes she believes female victims who say they weresexually assaultedby 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.

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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.’

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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.

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

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