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Pro-Israel News Anchor Fired From Sky News Australia Vows to Be ‘Loudest Member of the Silent Majority’
Television presenter Erin Molan at a press conference during a visit to Penshurst Girls School in Sydney, Wednesday, December 8, 2021. Photo: AAPIMAGE via Reuters Connect
An Australian news anchor who has repeatedly expressed support for Israel on air has been fired from hosting a Friday night news program on Sky News Australia.
Erin Molan, 41, presented the final episode of her evening show “Erin” on Nov. 29, and her firing was announced days later. She was not able to return on air to say farewell to her viewers. Sky News thanked Molan for her work in a statement to Australia’s Daily Mail but did not specify the reason for her firing.
“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,” the news network said. “We would like to thank her for her contribution to the network.”
Molan is the daughter of the late Major General Jim Molan, an Australian senator who was an avid supporter of Israel and a strong advocate for Australia-Israel ties. She grew up in Indonesia, which has the largest Muslim population in the world, and joined Sky News Australia in July 2022. Her morning show on Australia’s largest radio station, Southern Cross Austereo, with comedians David Hughes and Ed Kavalee, was canceled in August.
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Molan has made numerous comments on her show “Erin” in support of the Jewish state and its military actions targeting the terrorist organization controlling the Gaza Strip that orchestrated the deadly massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. She has also received death threats for backing the Jewish state.
On Friday, Sky News Australia host Sharri Markson denied that Molan was fired by the network because of her strong support for Israel. Markson wrote on X it is “categorically untrue” that her colleague was sacked by Sky News Australia “because of her Zionism.”
Nevertheless, Molan on Thursday posted a nine-minute video on X in which she talked largely about her unwavering support for Israel, and how she will keep defending the country publicly even after being fired from Sky News Australia. The single mother said that while her show “Erin” became her “purpose” and “passion,” that’s “done now, but I am not. In fact, I’m just getting started.”
She then started listing off the topics close to her heart that she refuses to stay silent about, including “fighting for every single hostage still captive in Gaza hundreds of days in, whilst a fair chunk of the world seemingly not only allows their captors completely off the hook, but praises them, worships them, idolizes them, rewards them.”
“Pressure Hamas? Oh God, no. Don’t be silly; they’re just terrorists, let them be,” she sarcastically added. “Pressure Israel, that’s it. 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. Yes, demonize them. They are the problem. What a plan, huh? Brilliant. And how many people fell for it and continue to.”
Molan also discussed continuing to advocate for the innocent children in Gaza suffering under Hamas rule, and further condemned the terrorist organization that perpetrated the Oct. 7 massacre last year. She criticized the “deafening silence” for the women who were killed, raped, and kidnapped by Hamas-led terrorist during the Oct. 7 attack, and the “unfathomable support for evil amongst young people in the West who are so deluded regarding where their empathy belongs.”
“I’m here to be the loudest member of the silent majority that I can be,” she said. “I’m not from Israel. I’m not Jewish … I have no skin in this game. But you see, I do. We all do. It doesn’t matter how far away we are. When hate is allowed to fester, we all lose … And if I back down now and sit idly by, then I am just as much to blame as the fool waving a Hamas flag at a bogus protest that has nothing to do with Palestinian lives.”
“Terrorism and extremism hurts all of us,” she said in conclusion. “That is why I will not stop.”
During one segment on “Erin” in September, Molan told viewers: “If you care about innocent civilians everywhere, then you must stand with Israel. Imagine the Middle East without terror. Hard to, isn’t it? Imagine every cent in Gaza going towards health and education, instead of terror tunnels and bombs … imagine peace. There’s only one side fighting for that right now and their victory in the Middle East is the only one that will ever achieve it.”
In October, after the premeditated and violent attack on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, Molan said: “If it doesn’t hurt you when you look at the footage from Amsterdam, you are not human.”
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Rubio Heads to Israel Amid Tensions Among US Middle East Allies
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to members of the media, before departing for Israel at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US, September 13, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard/Pool
US President Donald Trump’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio headed to Israel on Saturday, amid tensions with fellow US allies in the Middle East over Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar and expansion of settlements in the West Bank.
Speaking to reporters before departure, Rubio reiterated that the US and President Donald Trump were not happy about the strikes.
Rubio said the US relationship with Israel would not be affected, but that he would discuss with the Israelis how the strike would affect Trump’s desire to secure the return of all the hostages held by Hamas, get rid of the terrorists and end the Gaza war.
“What’s happened, has happened,” he said. “We’re gonna meet with them. We’re gonna talk about what the future holds,” he said.
“There are still 48 hostages that deserve to be released immediately, all at once. And there is still the hard work ahead once this ends, of rebuilding Gaza in a way that provides people the quality of life that they all want.”
Rubio said it had yet to be determined who would do that, who would pay for it and who would be in charge of the process.
After Israel, Rubio is due to join Trump’s planned visit to Britain next week.
Hamas still holds 48 hostages, and Qatar has been one of the mediators, along with the US, trying to secure a ceasefire deal that would include the captives’ release.
On Tuesday, Israel attempted to kill the political leaders of Hamas with an airstrike on Doha. US officials described it as a unilateral escalation that did not serve American or Israeli interests.
The strike on the territory of a close US ally sparked broad condemnation from other Arab states and derailed ceasefire and hostage talks brokered by Qatar.
On Friday, Rubio met with Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani at the White House, underscoring competing interests in the region that Rubio will seek to balance on his trip. Later that day, US President Donald Trump held dinner with the prime minister in New York.
Rubio’s trip comes ahead of high-level meetings at the United Nations in New York later this month. Countries including France and Britain are expected to recognize Palestinian statehood, a move opposed by Israel.
Washington says such recognition would bolster Hamas and Rubio has suggested the move could spur the annexation of the West Bank sought by hardline members of the Israeli government.
ON Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an agreement to push ahead with a settlement expansion plan that would cut across West Bank land that the Palestinians seek for a state. Last week, the United Arab Emirates warned that this would cross a red line and undermine the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords that normalized UAE-Israel relations in 2020.
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Netanyahu Posts Message Appearing to Confirm Hamas Leaders Survived Doha Strike
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Plenum session of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
i24 News – In a statement posted to social media on Saturday evening, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the Qatar-based leadership of Hamas, reiterating that the jihadist group had to regard for the lives of Gazans and represented an obstacle to ending the war and releasing the Israelis it held hostage.
The wording of Netanyahu’s message appeared to confirm that the strike targeting the Hamas leaders in Doha was not crowned with success.
“The Hamas terrorists chiefs living in Qatar don’t care about the people in Gaza,” wrote Netanyahu. “They blocked all ceasefire attempts in order to endlessly drag out the war.” He added that “Getting rid of them would rid the main obstacle to releasing all our hostages and ending the war.”
Israel is yet to officially comment on the result of the strike, which has incurred widespread international criticism.
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Trump Hosts Qatari Prime Minister After Israeli Attack in Doha
Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani attends an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, following an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, Sept. 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
US President Donald Trump held dinner with the Qatari prime minister in New York on Friday, days after US ally Israel attacked Hamas leaders in Doha.
Israel attempted to kill the political leaders of Hamas with an attack in Qatar on Tuesday, a strike that risked derailing US-backed efforts to broker a truce in Gaza and end the nearly two-year-old conflict. The attack was widely condemned in the Middle East and beyond as an act that could escalate tensions in a region already on edge.
Trump expressed annoyance about the strike in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sought to assure the Qataris that such attacks would not happen again.
Trump and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani were joined by a top Trump adviser, US special envoy Steve Witkoff.
“Great dinner with POTUS. Just ended,” Qatar’s deputy chief of mission, Hamah Al-Muftah, said on X.
The White House confirmed the dinner had taken place but offered no details.
The session followed an hour-long meeting that al-Thani had at the White House on Friday with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
A source briefed on the meeting said they discussed Qatar’s future as a mediator in the region and defense cooperation in the wake of the Israeli strikes against Hamas in Doha.
Trump said he was unhappy with Israel’s strike, which he described as a unilateral action that did not advance US or Israeli interests.
Washington counts Qatar as a strong Gulf ally. Qatar has been a main mediator in long-running negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza and for a post-conflict plan for the territory.
Al-Thani blamed Israel on Tuesday for trying to sabotage chances for peace but said Qatar would not be deterred from its role as mediator.