A political commentator was sacked from The Hill — days after rolling her eyes while interviewing the sister of an Israeli abducted on Oct. 7 victim.
“It finally happened. The Hill has fired me,” Briahna Joy Gray wrote on X Thursday. “There should be no doubt that @RisingTheHill has a clear pattern of suppressing speech — particularly when it’s critical of the state of Israel.”
An outlet spokesperson also confirmed to The Post she was no longer employed at The Hill.
In a follow-up tweet, Gray said her firing was “clearly part of a coordinated effort.”
Gray said she had no additional comment when reached by The Post Thursday evening.
Gray, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ former press secretary during the 2020 election, was slammed for her treatment of Yarden Gonen, the sister of Romi Gonen, who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, during an interview on Tuesday.
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.
Romi Gonen, 23, called her mother while she was in a car fleeing the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7 and ambushed by Hamas militants.
Her best friend Gaya Halifa, 24, lay dying in front of her.
Yarden Gonen told The Hill that the last she’d heard about her sister was during the November cease-fire deal, when some released hostages recounted some “horrifying things” they experienced.
The released hostages told her they saw Romi on Oct. 7 being dragged by her hair with a wounded arm. At one point she was knocked unconscious after a militant hit her with his weapon.
“This is how you treat people? This is how you treat people?” Yarden asked on the program.
“And this is only the things that happened to my little sister on Oct. 7, and from then, we don’t know what else.”
Gonen said she didn’t want to talk politics when pressed about the situation in Israel by Gray, telling her that she was only there to tell her sister’s story.
When Gonen was asked if she felt that Netanyahu was prioritizing his political aspirations over the lives of hostages, she said it was not her “profession” to comment.
“I am here to talk about my sister; please, help me spread her story. Help me make people understand what she is going through as a woman in 2024,” she said,
Gray’s demeanor during the interview outraged viewers online as the clip circulated on social media.
Hen Mazzig, the founder of the Tel Aviv Insitute, wrote “The Hill’s @briebriejoy rolling her eyes and sighing after Yarden Gonen, sister of a hostage in Gaza, asking her to believe rape victims.
“No low this person won’t sink to, truly disgusting,” he added.
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