Pro-Israel commentator received death threats over Israel support

Erin Molan says she still speaks up because Islamic terrorism must be defeated for the sake of her daughter and the next generation.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

A former Sky News Australia commentator has received death threats for her vocal support of Israel in its war against Hamas, but she remains undeterred, she told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Thursday.

Erin Molan, who was fired from her position in December due to her pro-Israel stance, became a successful podcaster and now stars on the new X platform called 69X News. She was forced to cancel events due to bomb threats and to have police accompany her from her car to the news station because the authorities felt that the online hate directed at her could actually turn from verbal to physical assaults.

The threats were even directed at her six-year-old daughter, and the little girl went to live with her father for some time because they feared for her safety.

Although admittedly nervous and tense regarding the threat against her child’s safety, Molan refuses to stop speaking out against Islamic terrorism because, she said, the future of the West depends on the danger being identified publicly and loudly.

“What’s happening now in Israel is happening in Australia, and it’s already starting,” she said. “Islamic extremism poses such a massive threat to everyone, unless we are brave enough to call it out and to fight it.”

Molan added that her strong defense of the Jewish state’s right to destroy the terrorists who planned, committed and support the October 7, 2023, atrocities was based in part on her upbringing. “My dad taught me to always do what was right and to say what was right, to stand for what was right, even when it was difficult and even when you knew that it might not work in your favor and you knew there might be consequences that were not ideal,” she explained.

The non-Jewish media personality also acknowledge a large element of self-interest in her outspokenness.

“It’s not just because I care about people in Israel and I care about the Jewish community — I do, deeply — but selfishly, I care much more about my daughter’s future and the kind of world that she will grow up in,” she said. “And I’m not silly enough to think that it ends with Israel or ends with the Jews.”

Molan was raised in Indonesia, the largest Muslim-populated country in the world, and she has many friends of the Muslim faith for whom she fears as well.

“Islamic extremism hurts them more than anyone else,” and therefore, “louder voices from their community” specifically are needed to combat the threat, she said.

Molan, who is also outspoken about the media bias against Israel, is a keynote speaker on Thursday, the second day of the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism, hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.