CAMERA Arabic's newest investigation unearths unchecked anti-Jewish bigotry thriving in the comments sections of France24 Arabic's social media, with several hundred comments praising deadly attacks against Jews since May 2021.
In ruling that Jerusalem correspondent Leila Odeh is fit for reporting and in failing to probe systemic anti-Israel bias in the Arabic service, France24 gives carte blanche to on air misconduct across the board.
“We commend France24 for investigating the four journalists but are dismayed at their decision to continue employing three of them,” said Andrea Levin, CAMERA’s executive director. “How are these three journalists acceptable at a serious news outlet? They report like opinion pundits on fringe hate sites — which is where, in fact, their bigoted views belong.”
On the heels of a CAMERA exposé of antisemitic social media posts by four journalists working for France24, the French state-owned news network has announced the suspension of the journalists and is currently investigating their social media pages.
A CAMERA Arabic exposé reveals long records of vile antisemitism on the social media accounts of France24 Arabic journalists Joelle Maroun, Dina Abi-Saab, and Laila Odeh.
Israeli Arab terrorists Karim and Maher Younis were convicted of the 1980 kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg. It's amazing how many facts about this case were misreported. With Arabic and English corrections at Reuters, AFP, France 24 and more, only The Jerusalem Post remains impervious to requests to set the record straight.
Without uttering a single word, France 24 Arabic loudly broadcasted its displeasure with Morocco's first official state welcome for a high-level Israeli visitor.
Laila Odeh, Jerusalem correspondent for France 24 Arabic, sinks into a baseless conspiracy theory alleging a U.S.-Israeli cover up of Shireen Abu Akleh's killing.
Adopting Palestinian and Arab nationalist perspectives at odds with well established facts, France24’s Arabic-speaking reporters, hosts and commentators make extensive use of biased terminology and leveled unfounded assertions.
According to Iran, Sayyad Khodai was the heroic champion of Shiite sites threatened by Al Qaeda terrorists. According to Israeli press reports, Khodai was the mastermind behind plots to assassinate Israeli civilians. International media report the former and ignore the latter.
