The San Francisco Chronicle makes it sound as if a Jewish employer fired a woman out of spite because he disliked her boyfriend's antisemitism.
A popular Bay Area yoga instructor was fired over the weekend because of her relationship with a Petaluma man who runs an antisemitic website and organization that the Anti-Defamation League said is responsible for "at least 74 antisemitic propaganda incidents," including recent events in which antisemitic flyers were distributed in the Bay Area.Jeff Renfro, who owns Hella Yoga and Funky Door Yoga in Berkeley and Yoga Hell in Petaluma, told The Chronicle he fired instructor Kelly Johnson over the weekend and terminated an agreement to sell one of the businesses to her because of the involvement of her boyfriend, Jon Minadeo Jr., in Goyim TV, a website that broadcasts antisemitic videos and other antisemitic activities....In a phone interview, Johnson told The Chronicle that she does not share her boyfriend's beliefs and that she was hurt by her depiction as a racist.... In an email to present and past customers, Renfro said he decided to fire Johnson because she seems to share Minadeo's beliefs and had assisted him in his business of hate. He told The Chronicle he found evidence on a computer they shared that Johnson registered Goyim TV as a California corporation."I am really hurt that they have gone this far to lie about me and say these things about me that are untrue," Johnson said. "I am a very loving person and have relationships and friendships with all kinds of people. It's really hard to read this. It's all lies."Johnson described herself as a "giving person" who "wants to be known for making a difference in people's lives," adding that she and Minadeo had sought out legal advice."This is the most slanderous, lying, evilest thing I have ever seen someone do to anyone else," Minadeo said. Minadeo said Goyim TV is about uniting all races against the Jewish supremacy. His girlfriend, he said, doesn't share his beliefs and isn't involved in his activities.
From reading the article, it appears that firing Johnson was not warranted. She shouldn't be punished for her boyfriend's bigotry. As much as I abhor GoyimTV, that was my first thought on reading this article, whose headline is, "Bay Area yoga teacher fired over boyfriend’s involvement with antisemitic website."
Then I looked at the original article in JWeekly which broke the story. And the Chronicle is leaving out a critical part of the story.
In late 2021, Renfro said he noticed a change in Johnson, that “bigoted” comments were coming out of her mouth, about Black Lives Matter protests. He alleges she made a comment about sitting next to “smelly Jews” on a plane. He wasn’t sure what to make of her comments, but suspected Minadeo was influencing her, he said, and gave her the benefit of the doubt because of their longstanding business relationship and friendship.[About two months ago] Renfro said he found evidence that Johnson helped Minadeo with paperwork for her boyfriend’s LLC, Goyim TV LLC, on her work computer. Minadeo formed the business entity last year. Renfro also alleged Johnson helped Minadeo improve the technology on his livestream.
If the paperwork for incorporating GoyimTV is on her work computer, that is a fireable offense by any measure. Not only is it using a work computer for personal business, but it is using a work computer to help encourage antisemitism.
Now, why didn't the Chronicle - which admits that JWeekly broke the story - mention this? Why do they instead interview the antisemitic boyfriend and his defense of his girlfriend?
In fact, the Chronicle article spends far more space quoting the antisemite than the Jew, let alone the girlfriend who insists there is nothing wrong with helping an antisemitic organization.
The Chronicle is pretending to be balanced - between a Jewish store-owner and a white supremacist. And they are giving the white supremacist and his girlfriend more of an opportunity to say their side of the story than the Jew.
Maybe they thought that the Jew was too smelly to listen too hard to his side of the story.
