A Jewish man walks with young Jewish boys in Golders Green, London, January 10 , 2015. The Community Security Trust (CST), which provides security advice to Britain’s estimated 260,000 Jews, said police in London and Manchester in northern England had agreed to increase patrols at synagogues and other venues over the next days. Reuters/Paul Hackett

It hasn’t made much news in the United States, but an antisemitism scandal is rocking the media establishment in France.

A second reporter has recently been fired from France 24 — a taxpayer-funded news network that is somewhat like the BBC — after CAMERA researchers revealed that several journalists employed by the company expressed support for terrorism and antisemitism in their Arabic social media accounts.

During a heated French parliamentary question period on July 18, French MPs Meyer Habib and Caroline Yadan confronted France Médias Monde, the parent company of France 24, with the disturbing findings of CAMERA’s investigation.

France Médias Monde CEO Marie-Christine Saragosse responded to the parliamentary interrogation by saying that three Arabic-language correspondents — Laila Odeh, Sharif Bibi, and Dina Abi-Saab — were asked to sign the company’s ethics charter.

The ethics charter states that journalists must reject “any incitement to crime, violence, hatred, racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination, intolerance and stigmatization.”

Odeh and Bibi signed the charter. But Abi-Saab refused to sign, leading to her termination from the company, according to Saragosse’s testimony.

Abi-Saab’s refusal to sign the company’s code of ethics suggests that she stands by her social media posts, which show her celebrating rocket attacks on Israel’s civilian population and cheering on war crimes with a “resistance” hashtag.

Her social media posts also show her glorifying terrorist Omar Abu Leila as a “martyr,” and likening the Israeli military’s bombing of empty skyscrapers in Gaza — whose occupants evacuated after receiving advance notice from the Israeli army — to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In one of her Facebook posts, Abi-Saab says she is “hoping” for Israel to be “annihilated.”

Oddly, Abi-Saab still presents herself as a France 24 employee on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and Facebook, despite France 24’s responsibility to ensure that she removes the false employment references from her private social media accounts.

Her termination makes her the second employee to be fired from the news network as a result of CAMERA’s exposé. In March, France 24 also fired Lebanese journalist Joelle Maroun for, among other things, expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler and support for the murder of Jewish civilians.

France Médias Monde’s CEO said that Jerusalem correspondent Laila Odeh attended a June 3 training seminar teaching “the difference between journalism and activism.”

While it’s commendable that France 24 fired two of the journalists, it remains doubtful that someone like Odeh can be reformed by signing ethics charters or attending sensitivity trainings.

Consider the fact that just three weeks after Odeh attended the training seminar, she referred to a terrorist’s death as an “ascension” to heaven, a tweet she deleted only after CAMERA translated and flagged it.

What the evidence makes clear is that these France 24 journalists hold intensely passionate antisemitic attitudes and extremist political views, that are deeply rooted.

Contrary to what France 24’s leadership may think, Odeh’s support for antisemitism and terrorism isn’t normal political “activism” and is unlikely to be dispelled in conventional warnings that she adhere to professional ethical standards.

Hopefully, the network’s leadership realizes the full implications — that activist antisemites on their staff will undermine the integrity of the entire enterprise — as antisemitism so often does when it’s not vigorously renounced and removed.

Andrea Levin is the president and executive director of the media watchdog CAMERA. Jonah Cohen is communications director for CAMERA.