A top science journal fired its editor over a pro-Palestinian tweet. He has no regrets.

Michael Eisen , editor-in-chief of eLife , was fired after reposting an Onion article critical of Hamas ' response to the Gaza attacks.

The post went viral overnight, and resulted in Eisen 's dismissal by the journal where he’d served as editor since 2019 .

Eisen is Jewish , with relatives in Israel .

Michael Eisen , a scientist who studies the fruit fly genome, sparked a Twitter blow-up on Science Twitter (now X) He was a prolific presence on X, where he has more than 75,000 followers and nearly as many posts.

Eisen has never shied away from speaking his mind, but he says he's not allowed to speak on someone else's terms.

Michael Eisen was fired from eLife after he wrote a satirical post on the Gaza border.

The day before, Israeli forces had slaughtered more than 60 Gazans who’d rushed to the border fence to protest the designation of Jerusalem as Israel ’s new capital.

Eisen says he was distressed by what felt like an institutional acceptance of the notion that the killing of innocents by Hamas somehow justified the killing by Israel .