After firing by Sky News Australia, pro-Israel TV host says she’s ‘not done’
Erin Molan does not share reasons for her dismissal or plans for the future but says she won’t stop defending Israel in its war against Hamas
Australian TV presenter Erin Molan defended her views in a video posted to social media on Friday, particularly regarding the Israel-Hamas war, following her firing by Sky News Australia earlier this week.
The Daily Mail Australia, which first reported on Molan’s dismissal, did not explain why she was let go and said Sky News Australia defined the end of her tenure there as “amicable.”
“Erin has been a fantastic member of the Sky News team over the past three years and has worked incredibly hard for her viewers, passionately advocating on the issues close to her heart,” a Sky News Australia spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia, thanking Molan for her contribution to the network.
In her nine-minute video statement, Molan also did not elaborate on the reasons for her dismissal.
“I loved every second of my time with Sky. My show there became my passion, my purpose, and aside from my little girl, basically my entire existence. That’s done now, but I am not. I’m just getting started,” she said.
Molan said she cared “about continuing to fight for every single hostage still held captive in Gaza” for hundreds of days while “the rest of the world seemingly not only completely lets their captors off the hook, but praises them, worships them, idolizes them, and rewards them.”
She went on to criticize the world’s “demonization” of Israel, which she referred to as “the only democracy in the Middle East, fighting bloodthirsty killers on multiple fronts on behalf of the entire world, desperately trying to get their people back, including babies, while simultaneously trying to protect the rest of their citizens from the same fate.”
She added, “The problem is I just care too much… about a peaceful existence for every single child. About the safety of women everywhere, all women. About standing up for what is right in the face of what feels at the moment like an unrelenting wave of evil. About calling out the deep-seated hypocrisy among organizations that were created to help, to save, to protect, but instead continue to do the complete opposite.”
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— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) December 13, 2024
Molan railed against the United Nations in a monologue on her program last month, a few days after the organization’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in which she accused the UN of hypocrisy when it comes to Israeli women.
She referred to an interview journalist Piers Morgan conducted on his “Uncensored” show with the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, who refused to explicitly say she accepted that Hamas terrorists sexually abused women during its October 7 attack.
Molan criticized the UN for “having cupcakes and patting itself on the back for fighting for women’s rights,” while Albanese refused to accept that women in Israel were subjected to violence during the attack despite testimonies from survivors, evidence presented in multiple reports, and terrorists admitting to raping victims in interrogations.
Hamas’s attack, in which terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages, sparked the war in Gaza in which Hamas claims more than 44,000 people have been killed.
The toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 18,000 combatants in battle as of November and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques. Israel has faced increasingly heavy criticism worldwide for Hamas’s reported death toll, which the terrorist organization claims includes a significant number of children.
Molan attributed the civilian situation in Gaza to Hamas, saying that she cared about “fighting for the innocent children in Gaza who are suffering at the hands of terrorists who attack, kill, and kidnap Jews and then delight in using their own families as human shields in some kind of sick attempt to win the PR battle.”
She also spoke out against the “terrifying unfathomable support for evil among young people in the West, who are so deluded regarding where their empathy belongs,” and “the absence of moral clarity, and extremism taking its place.”
She added that in her opinion, the three things that cause “evil to survive” are “weak leadership,” “useful idiots,” and “a silent majority.”
“So I am here to be the loudest member of the silent majority that I can be,” she said.
Addressing what she would do next, Molan did not offer any specific plans. She said that while it would be “easier to accept the job offers from other networks” that she had already received, she didn’t feel that would be the right move.
“I won’t ever accept what the world is dishing out now, and nor should you. The stakes are too high. It matters too much to stop, so I won’t,” she said.
