Cant use es6 imports in globalSetup

[amiralies]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Bug

What is the current behavior?
my code base is written in es6 also my test files.
now i need to run a globalSetup script but i cant use es6 in it.
it throws SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

my jest config:

module.exports = {
  testEnvironment: 'node',
  globalSetup: './scripts/globalSetup.js',
};

What is the expected behavior?
globalSetup script run w/o errors;

Please provide your exact Jest configuration and mention your Jest, node,
yarn/npm version and operating system.
jest: 22.4.2
node: v8.9.4 LTS
yarn: 1.5.1
OS: Ubuntu 16.04

[thymikee]

Duplicate of #5164

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