Revealed: The extremist anti-Israel rantings ACA reporter Ben McCormack directed at a Jewish colleague that earned him a 'final warning' from Nine bosses - as he faces child porn charges
- Ben McCormack emblazoned his desk with anti-Israeli material
- The ACA journalist also posted provactive anti-Israel content on social media
- Move was a bid to rile up his then Jewish colleague, reporter Caroline Marcus
- He was reportedly on a 'one-strike-and-you're out' arrangement with Nine
- The veteran ACA reporter was this week charged with sharing explicit child porn
A Current Affair reporter Ben McCormack draped his desk in offensive pictures including one comparing Israel's prime minister to Adolf Hitler, and posted on Facebook calling the Jewish state a 'f***ing disgrace,' Daily Mail Australia has learned.
McCormack, 42, who this week was charged with child sex offences, used offensive material to allegedly provoke a former colleague at the Nine Network, Caroline Marcus, who is Jewish.
Details have trickled out about Mr McCormack's workplace behaviour after he was sensationally charged on Thursday morning on the way to work with using a carriage service to send child pornography.
Daily Mail Australia has been supplied with photographs of some the extremist political material that McCormack displayed on his desk as well as screen shots of Facebook posts.
A post from Ben McCormack on Facebook in August condemning Israel as an 'international f****n disgrace'
ACA journalist Ben McCormack allegedly posted this post comparing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) to Osama bin Laden (left)
Content Ben McCormack used on his desk to allegedly provoke a work colleague comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to despot Adolf Hitler
Nine Network reporter Ben McCormack is released from Redfern Police station in Sydney, Thursday
A photo from McCormack's desk showed a photo of despot Adolf Hitler performing the Nazi salute with the line, 'We are the master race'.
On the same A4 page was a photo underneath appearing to compare Adolf Hitler to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a tagline, 'We are God's chosen people'.
A Facebook post from McCormack this time appears to compare Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with founder of Al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden with the heading: 'Terrorists'.
McCormack used the offensive material in a bid to rile Marcus, who wrote a weekly newspaper column that included discussion of issues such as her Jewish heritage and the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Daily Mail Australia understands McCormack was placed on a 'one-strike-and-you're out arrangement' with Nine, before Thursday's bombshell revelations.
The source told Daily Mail Australia: 'He was a protected species at Nine'.
The ACA reporter emblazoned his desk with photos of dead Palestinian children in a bid to rile up his then colleague, Caroline Marcus (pictured)
More content allegedly posted by Mr McCormack to provoke his Jewish work colleague
McCormack used the offensive material in a bid to rile Marcus, who wrote a weekly newspaper column that included discussion of issues such as her Jewish heritage
The office row was brought to the attention of Nine management and the HR department dealt with it in September 2014.
McCormack was pulled over by police on Driver Avenue, in Sydney's Moore Park, at 7.30am on Thursday while on his way to work and his car searched.
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Dressed in a blue suit, he was led into the back seat of an unmarked police car and taken to a Sydney police station, where he was charged with using a carriage service to send child pornography.
Mr McCormack was granted strict conditional bail and will face Downing Centre Local Court on May 1. He was suspended by Nine immediately after the charges.
The office row was brought to the attention of Nine management and the HR department dealt with it in September 2014
The veteran ACA reporter was this week charged with sharing explicit child porn
Mr McCormack (left) was suspended by Nine immediately after the charges
He has been ordered to keep away from playgrounds, schools and concerts under strict bail conditions.
Mr McCormack has also been suspended from the surf life saving club where he has trained children.
The veteran reporter has been ordered not to communicate with, attempt to communicate with, 'seek or actively remain in the company of' any person aged younger than 16.
Thursday night's episode of A Current Affair led with a report on McCormack's arrest and presenter Leila McKinnon said the programme intends to 'cover the story without fear or favour.'
The arrest has sent shockwaves through the media community, with colleagues describing their disbelief at the allegations against the 'lovable guy.
Mr McCormack has also been suspended from the surf life saving club where he has trained children
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