Pandemic Academic
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@EmicAcademic
academic researching social justice and tech interventions for mental health. 🤓 She/her
New article from me! On ethnic cleansing, Israel's attacks on Gaza, and a road trip through Oklahoma's Native history sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/trails-of-te…
It has been the case since as far as I can remember in business and in media that family was off limits, unless of course the family is directly involved in the business. The code of the road was that you can attack the protagonist as much as you want, but not his wife and not his kids. The same is true in business dealings. You never go after someone’s family to get at a business person. This is a sacred code that I have never seen violated. Business Insider broke this sacred code on Thursday and again on Friday when they went after my wife, @NeriOxman. And they are working on another story about her. They are calling her former students as we speak. Inspired by the code being broken, a journalist from Bloomberg reached out to my kids on their cell phones this weekend for a story she is working on. The reporter’s name is Kathy Burton. I had respected her until now. Do we want to live in a world where journalists go after your life partner and your kids? In that world, one would respond to an attack on one’s wife and family by going after the owner of the media company and his wife and family. Ask yourself, who would want to advertise on a media property where they go after people’s families? No one. Because eventually they will go after your family. The Editor of the Investigative group of Business Insider who is leading the attack on my wife is John Cook. He is a known anti-Zionist. My wife is Israeli. That might explain why he was willing to lead this attack and others turned down the source when they were looking for a media outlet. How would John feel if someone went after his life partner and kids? How would Joe Bae and Scott Nuttall feel if it was their wives and kids rather than mine? How would Henry Kravis and George Roberts react to this experience? How would Mike Bloomberg? We need to decide what kind of world we want to live in. I want to know the answer to that question today because it is a really important question, and it affects society at large and our future.
