While you can be permanently replaced, you technically can't be fired. The strikers have the first opportunity to take the job of replacement workers who might quit.
You have suggested she should and even might even step aside. Why?
As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.