In the last week, Briahna Joy Gray, who was fired from The Hill for spreading misinformation and even showing blatant disrespect by rolling her eyes at a sister of a hostage held in Gaza when asked to believe the rape victims of October 7th, continues to deny that such rapes occurred and claims that she was fired for criticizing Israel. Briahna takes any statements from Hamas at face value while refusing to believe anything from Israel, characterizing all Israelis and Jews as deceitful. This is ironic, given her own track record of lying about us. At the risk of sounding conceited, since she has gone on numerous interviews defaming me as “some internet guy” “with no credentials,” here’s my bio, which is available online if she actually did what professional journalists do and used Google before interviewing guests. For over a decade, Hen Mazzig has been an educator on Jews with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. He served for five years as a Humanitarian Officer in the West Bank and Gaza, working with Palestinian civilians and the UN to promote humanitarian projects in the region. He then earned a degree in the history of the Middle East and Islam at Bar Ilan University. Mazzig has appeared as an expert on Jewish and Israeli issues on four continents, hundreds of college campuses, CNN, BBC, SkyNews, TEDx, and more. Mazzig’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, NBC News, Haaretz, The Forward, International Business Times, and numerous other publications. He is a regular columnist for the UK Jewish Chronicle. Hen was named in Algemeiner’s top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life in 2018 and 2021, the top 50 online pro-Israel influencers, and top 50 Israeli LGBTQ+ voices online. For his advocacy, he was awarded CAMERA’s Portrait in Courage Award in 2022 and the WIZO Commitment for Diversity Award in 2024. Mazzig’s first book, “The Wrong Kind of Jew,” was released in 2022. Today he is the Senior Fellow at The Tel Aviv Institute. Maybe it’s not about credentials at all, but rather that I don’t adhere to her hateful ideology.
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