Former Sky News Host Denounces Australia For Recognizing Palestinian State

Australian television presenter Erin Molan, a staunch defender of the West and Israel, denounced the Australian government for asserting they would recognize a Palestinian state in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of over 1200 Israelis, bitterly offering congratulations to Hamas and other terrorist groups.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has presided over an era in which antisemitism has become pronounced in his country and anti-Israel actions have grown ever more public, said on Monday that his country would recognize a Palestinian state.

“A big congratulations to Hamas off the news out of Australia that our government, our Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister will be recognizing a Palestinian state,” Molan said acidly. “They are, of course, in control of Gaza. They are terrorists and they carried out October 7. So a big congratulations to them for this wonderful shot in the arm.”

“I’d like to pass on my condolences to the hostages, around 50, who are still trapped in tunnels, are desperate, dying, suffering immensely; to every child in Gaza, my condolences to you as well because this will only prolong your pain because our government has just given a massive big hurrah to the people responsible for your pain: Hamas, the terrorists,” she declared.

“And also a big shout out to every other heinous, murderous terrorist group in the world who was looking for a kind of way to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the Western world,” she said. “Who now know all they have to do is break into another country, slaughter, rape, chop off heads, hack them off on camera, burn children alive, and take hostages, including babies, then kill them, and ‘Bob’s your uncle’: there you go: statehood.”

“So just really a big congratulations all round to all the terrorists and condolences to every innocent person who will be hurt immensely by this, none more so than the hostages and those children in Gaza,” she concluded.

A huge congratulations not JUST to H*mas… but to terrorists everywhere 💪 What a win… 🥳

Ohhhh and condolences to the hostages, kids in Gaza and innocents everywhere who will suffer even more so as a result 🙏

Australia has just announced it will recognise a Palestinian… pic.twitter.com/MF7OF2eAfQ

— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) August 11, 2025

Molan said last November of Israel, “They are the only country currently fighting back and destroying the terrorists currently trying to destroy our way of life. … For most people in the West, that’s not the case. Yet. But as this movement grows — and it is — we won’t have an Iron Dome to protect us. Unlike Israel, the enemy in the West is already within. And the damage they will be capable of with just a little more encouragement and leniency will be unthinkable.”

I honestly don’t know how @Erin_Molan does it. Week after week after week she breathtakingly knocks it out of the park every single time.

Watch as Erin calls out every single cowardly government for their blatant inaction in the face of the worst wave of hate and antisemitism… pic.twitter.com/OlMvjPSZku

— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) November 29, 2024

In July, a synagogue with roughly 20 people inside praying was firebombed in East Melbourne; last December, another synagogue in Melbourne was set ablaze. Between October 7, 2023, and December 2024, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry reported more than 2,000 anti-Jewish incidents.

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