Michael Eisen says his dismissal was due to his sharing the satirical article.
A Jewish editor in chief of a science journal says he was fired from his position after sharing an article on the siege in Gaza from the satirical website The Onion.
Michael Eisen, who edits the Cambridge-based science journal eLife, on Monday shared the news of his dismissal on X (formerly Twitter).
Eisen, who is also a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, had shared an Onion article titled “Dying Gazans Criticized for Not Using Last Words to Condemn Hamas.”
“Every sane person on Earth is horrified and traumatized by what Hamas did and wants it to never happen again,” he clarified in a later tweet. “All the more so as a Jew with Israeli family. But I am also horrified by the collective punishment already being meted out on Gazans, and the worse that is about to come.”
To protest Eisen’s firing, fellow editor Lara Urban also announced her resignation on Monday afternoon.
read more: https://newrepublic.com/post/176412/jewish-editor-michael-eisen-fired-sharing-onion-article-gaza
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This being posted in nottheonion is a perfect example of Russell’s Paradox.
Yeah I was about to say, this is actually from the onion. Indirectly. 😅
Looked that up because I didn’t know what it was. I think maybe you named the wrong name? Russell’s Paradox is some set theory mumbo jumbo.
“The set of all sets which do not contain themselves.”
Ah, yeah. That makes sense. I’m just dumb, lol.
We’re all dumb, some of us are just self aware enough to realize it.
Who is upvoting this? Russell’s Paradox is about groups containing all the members that don’t belong to said group.
Not the Onion hosting an article about the effect of The Onion is humorously close to that.
No, but also yes.
OK, so am I smart ape? Is this the definition? Did I crack the case?
I have been reading about this for 20 minutes now and I still don’t get it. I especially don’t get how it has to do with this article.
What’s it called when Christians explain to their Jewish neighbors that any criticism of the Israeli government is actually anti-Semitism?
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This, but more specifically - goysplaining.
It’s not just Christians. I’ve been called anti semetic by some right wing extened family at holiday meals; and by some teachers at the Jewish day school I attended.
Link to the onion article.
I had my money on the “we’re supporting Israel because it’s safer” article
Me too, but that’s mainly because I read it just last night so it’s fresh in my mind 😁
One of my favourite things about it isn’t even in the article text itself:
I, for one, fully support Israel because it seems like you get in less trouble for that.
Some may call me a coward for this decision. To this, I can only say the following: If a coward is a person who avoids taking a difficult stance on topics for personal expediency, then “coward” is a badge I will gladly wear, again and again and again.
https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-stands-with-israel-because-it-seems-like-yo-1850922505
Never heard of Lara Urban (badass name btw!) before, but I love her act of defiant solidarity! ✊️❤️
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