Journal Editor FIRED For Reposting Satirical Onion Article About Gaza Deaths

Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of eLife, lost his job for retweeting an satire piece from The Onion a

"Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of the prominent open-access journal eLife and longtime critic of traditional journals, says he is losing that job for publicly endorsing a satirical article that criticized people dying in Gaza for not condemning the recent attacks on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas.

“I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians,” Eisen posted on the social media platform X today. Multiple editors at eLife or advisers to the journal have already resigned to protest his dismissal."bout the devastation of Gaza civilian deaths. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.