Australian television presenter Erin Molan defended her views in a video posted on social media on Friday, particularly regarding the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, following her dismissal earlier this week by Sky News Australia channel.
The newspaper Daily Mail Australiawhich was the first to announce Molan’s dismissal, did not explain the reason, saying that Sky News Australia had announced that the termination of his contract had taken place “amicably”.
“Erin has been a fantastic member of the Sky News team over the past three years and has worked incredibly hard for her viewers, fighting passionately for the issues she cares about most,” commented. of Daily Mail Australia a spokesperson for the channel, thanking Molan for his contribution.
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In his nine-minute filmed statement, Molan also does not go into detail about the reasons for his dismissal.
“I loved every second I spent at Sky. My show on the channel has become my passion, my only goal and apart from my little daughter, it has become my entire existence. It’s all over now – but it’s not over as far as I’m concerned. This is just the beginning for me,” she says in the video.
Molan adds that it has been important for her to “continue to fight for every hostage still held in Gaza” for hundreds of days – at a time when “the rest of the world apparently not only completely absolves their captors but also , he pays homage to them, he idolizes them, he venerates them and he rewards them.
She then criticizes the “demonization” of Israel across the planet – referring to the country as “the only democracy in the Middle East that fights against bloodthirsty killers on multiple fronts and in the name of the entire world, tempting desperate to bring back his hostages, with babies among them, while simultaneously trying to protect other citizens from meeting the same fate.”
She adds that “the problem is that I worry too much… About a peaceful existence for all the children. I worry about the safety of women everywhere, of all women. I worry about standing up for what is right in the face of what currently feels like an ever-increasing wave of evil. I am concerned about denouncing the entrenched hypocrisy of organizations that were created to help people, to save them, to protect them but which, instead, do the complete opposite. »
Molan mocked the United Nations during a monologue on his show last month, days after the International Day Against Violence Against Women. She had accused the UN of hypocrisy regarding the violence suffered by Israeli women.
She had referred to an interview conducted by journalist Piers Morgan on his show “Uncensored”, an interview he had with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. On this occasion, the latter refused to explicitly say that she accepted the fact that Hamas terrorists had sexually abused Israeli women during the October 7 pogrom.
Molan had criticized the UN, which she said “welcomes fighting for women’s rights over a cup of tea” while Albanese refused to accept that women in Israel had been subjected to sexual violence during the massacre – and this, despite the testimonies of survivors, despite the evidence presented in several reports and despite the very confessions of the terrorists, who admitted to having committed rape during their interrogations.
The pogrom committed by Hamas – the armed men massacred more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251 people, taken hostage in the Gaza Strip – was at the origin of the current war in within the coastal enclave which, according to Hamas, caused more than 44,000 deaths.
Protesters during a demonstration decrying the sexual violence suffered by Israeli women during the Hamas assault on southern Israel on October 7, in front of the United Nations headquarters, in New York, December 4, 2023. ( Credit: Yakov Binyamin/Flash90)
A record which remains unverifiable and which makes no difference between civilians and terrorists. Israel, for its part, claimed, in November, to have killed 18,000 armed men in the conflict, in addition to a thousand who had been killed on Israeli soil on October 7.
Israel explains that it is trying to limit the number of civilian casualties as much as possible and emphasizes that the terrorist group uses civilians as human shields, launching its attacks from civilian areas – homes, hospitals, schools, mosques and others. The Jewish state faces growing international criticism over the deadly toll of the growing conflict in Gaza – Hamas says a significant number of children are among the victims. victims.
In her video, Molan places responsibility for the terrible situation facing civilians in Gaza on Hamas, noting that she is sensitive to the need “to fight for the innocent children of Gaza who are suffering under the influence of terrorists who “attack, kill and kidnap Jews, then delight in using their own families as human shields in some sort of demented attempt to win the PR war.”
She also denounces “the terrifying and unfathomable support for evil by young people in the West, who are so lost in their empathy”, also evoking “the absence of moral clarity, with extremism taking its place.” »
She adds that according to her, the three elements which allow “evil to survive” are “a leadership mediocre”, “useful idiots” and “a silent majority”.
“So I’m here to be the loudest voice in this silent majority, and I will raise my voice as much as I can,” she continues.
Protesters demanding the release of hostages, in Tel Aviv, November 30, 2024. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP)
Talking about his future, Molan does not announce any specific projects. She indicates that although it would be “easier to accept job offers made by other channels” and that she has already received some, she does not feel that this would be a good thing.
“I will never accept what the world has to offer today – and neither should you. The stakes are far too high. It’s too important to stop now and I won’t stop,” she says.
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