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Posted on 07/10/2017 8:07:19 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
An award-winning journalist who broke the story of the group of Jewish women ejected from an LGBTQ march in Chicago last month has been reassigned to non-journalistic duties at the paper which ran the original report, the Windy City Times.
Gretchen Rachel Hammond — whose June 24 story caused a national storm after she detailed how three women flying Jewish Pride flags embossed with the Star of David were instructed to leave the gathering by organizers from the Dyke March Collective — confirmed to The Algemeiner on Monday that while she was still employed by the paper, she was not presently engaged in its reporting and writing operations.
“At this time, I have not been fired from Windy City Times, but I have been transferred to working full time for the sales department,” Hammond explained in an emailed statement. “The reasoning is an internal matter and I have been instructed not to comment about it even to close friends. Given my present situation, I must comply with this instruction.”
The Windy City Times — whose masthead featured Hammond as a senior writer until a week ago — now describes her as “senior account executive.”
The Algemeiner approached Hammond after a reader pointed out that her role at the Windy City Times had been abruptly switched. The reader said in an email that Hammond’s reporting had been blamed by the march organizers for the ensuing controversy, and went on to express “disgust” and “outrage” that Hammond had “been bullied and attacked” by individuals associated with the march, sometimes in an “antisemitic” manner.
Tracy Baim — the publisher and executive editor of the Windy City Times — told The Algemeiner she could not discuss the specific charges around Hammond.
“I cannot comment on our people, but know that we stand by our reporting on our stories,” Baim said by telephone from Chicago.
Pressed on whether she stood by Hammond’s reporting of the Dyke March controversy specifically, Baim answered affirmatively. “I was the one who edited the story,” she added. Asked why Hammond had not filed a byline for the paper since June 28, Baim had no comment.
Hammond joined the Windy City Times as a reporter in 2013 and won the 2016 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Award for Excellence in News Writing. This year, Hammond was a finalist for the second time for the Lisagor Award, which honors journalists in Chicago.
Hammond came to national attention in 2016 when she saved the life of one of her readers by donating a kidney. “This current and particularly ugly electoral cycle has been fueled by the politics of conceit,” Hammond later reflected in a column for the paper. “So it is easy to forget that, even if you don’t have the resources of a wealthy philanthropist, it is more important than ever to help someone in need and, in so doing, change their world and, as a consequence of that action, the world as a whole for the better.”
In her initial report on the march, Hammond quoted a member of the Dyke March Collective explaining that the Jewish women had been removed because their flags “made people feel unsafe” and that the event was “anti-Zionist” and “pro-Palestinian.” On June 28 — in her last article for the paper — Hammond conducted an extensive interview with Dyke March Collective activist Alexis Martinez, who was given ample space to present her argument that the march was “anti-Zionist,” and not “antisemitic.”
During the interview, Martinez accused the Windy City Times of having “failed in its journalistic mission” for allegedly not contacting her before the paper revealed the removal of the Jewish women marchers.
Asked by Hammond whether the march organizers would apologize, Martinez said: “We did nothing wrong. Those people who are asking us to apologize need to come up with facts. They need to have been there, on the ground and involved in the situation to have some validity.”
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There is a price to pay for questioning the Anti-Semitic SJW hive-mind, and that price is getting higher and higher.
Hammond just found out about that price, and Thom Yorke of Radiohead is also finding out about it.
“and I have been instructed not to comment about it even to close friends.”
The correct response to this is “Blow me.”
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Fake news propagation is understandable if practicing pundits are demoted for reporting real news.
The SJW are the same as socialists have always been.
More letters for the alphabet perverts.
LGBTQJudenrein
The SJW are the same as socialists have always been.
More letters for the alphabet perverts.
LGBTQJudenrein
BDS Fail: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Calls Pro-Palestinian Protesters ‘Some F-cking People’
by DEBORAH DANAN 9 Jul 2017765
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/07/09/watch-bds-fail-radiohead-frontman-flips-off-pro-palestinian-protesters/
TEL AVIV – Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on Friday flipped his middle finger at a group of pro-Palestinian protesters at a gig in Glasgow, Scotland who were calling for the band to cancel its upcoming gig in Tel Aviv.
Activists from Glasgow Palestine Action, Glasgow Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Radiohead Fans for Palestine demonstrated outside the festival prior to the band’s performance. During the performance itself, Palestinian flags were waved from the crowd, prompting Yorke to exclaim no less than four times the phrase “some f*cking people!” into the microphone before reportedly flipping off the flag wavers.
Radiohead has come under intense pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement led by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters to cancel their Tel Aviv concert later this summer. Waters, who has in the past compared Israel to Nazi Germany, uses bullying tactics to persuade a range of fellow musicians not to perform in the Jewish state.
Waters told Radiohead to “think again” about playing in a country “where a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people.” Israel does not impose any apartheid system on the Palestinian people. But the band ignored the extremist call to boycott, with Thom Yorke telling Rolling Stone magazine it was “deeply distressing” that Waters and other BDS activists “choose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw s**t at us in public.”
“I’ll be totally honest with you: this has been extremely upsetting,” said Yorke to the Rolling Stone interviewer. “There’s an awful lot of people who don’t agree with the BDS movement, including us. I don’t agree with the cultural ban at all, along with J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky and a long list of others.”
“The kind of dialogue that they want to engage in is one that’s black or white. I have a problem with that,” Yorke explained. “It’s deeply distressing that they choose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw shit at us in public.
“It’s deeply disrespectful to assume that we’re either being misinformed or that we’re so retarded we can’t make these decisions ourselves. I thought it was patronizing in the extreme. It’s offensive and I just can’t understand why going to play a rock show or going to lecture at a university [is a problem to them].”
While a few artists, including Stevie Wonder and Lauryn Hill, caved to pressure from the BDS movement, most have ignored it, with Tel Aviv seeing concerts from the likes of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Santana, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Aerosmith, Britney Spears and Bon Jovi in recent years.
A dyke riot is an ugly thing.
There is a lot going on with the reporter.(Gretchen Hammond)
Trans, kidney donor ...
How to donate a kidney to one of your newspaper’s readers.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whys-wherefores-donating-kidney-one-your-newspapers-readers-hammond
Anti-Semitic lesbians, bi’s, gays, transgendered, etc. It just keeps getting better for all Americans to see the new “convergence” of “Marxists and anti-Israel Moslems and supporters of a so-called “Palestine”.
We’ve been warning about this for years, but it has only been in the last few months that major Jewish newspapers have finally picked up on the growing threat of Marxists/Islamists anti-Semitism here at home and in the BDS movement abroad.
Linda Sarsour in a perfect example and yet she was allowed to led the Million Women March. Black Marxist radicals have also joined in the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist fray but they do that because they are communists, not just anti-Semitic.
Obama was friends with Khalidi, another leftwing Moslem and anti-Israel, anti-US activist. He got a good job at Columbia University, one of the worst centers of anti-Semitism and Marxism in America (some of their teachers and student organizations just hate everything Western and everyone Jewish or sympathetic to Israel).
Remember, SDS, under Mark Rudd (himself a self-hating Jew), got its fame for their takeover of Columbia University in the late 60’s, while the university itself created a Chair in Philosophy and appointed as its head Corliss Lamont, an identified member of the Communist Party USA and longtime propagandist for the Soviet Union. Lamont (a J. P. Morgan family member), also lent money to the leftist Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam for their ad in Playboy Magazine, which got them tens of thousands of dollars in donations, and off John Kerry went, to Congress.
The web of communist/Arabist/Islamist cooperation goes back to the time of Stalin, so what we have today is just another generation of “Red/Islam Unity” in the fight against the West, esp. the U.S. and Israel, one of our best allies in the world.
This group of bigoted immoral scum is going to defend America?
They are lying weasels. They stand for nothing but deceit.
No, the correct response is to call up a lawyer and immediately sue for illegal employment practices. I’m sure the lawyer can come up with any number of ‘protected class’ reasons as well.
“national storm” seems a bit of a stretch.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
Lots of info there. Thanks.
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Needless to say overt antisemitism is not a topic the Windy City Times is willing to report. Given it's prevalence on the political left, not entirely surprising.
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