Pro-Israel Australian journalist says she is speaking up for truth and justice

While much of the mainstream global media is hostile towards the State of Israel, Australian journalist Erin Molan has embraced a strong pro-Israel stance since last year's unprecedented Hamas Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping of 251 people from southern Israeli communities.

Molan, who recently visited Israel for the first time, explained that her Israel advocacy is driven by a strong sense of truth and justice.

"I have no association or affiliation, I have no bias, I have no agenda, I'm not Jewish, I'm not from Israel. Anything that you could possibly think of to come at me with won't work. I am an Australian who's never been here before. Now I have a lot of Jewish friends, but before October 7, I had one school mom friend, and I really didn't know anyone else in the Jewish community that well. What I do is speak the truth, and I stand up for what is right. It blows my mind that the rest of the world doesn't see it as clearly as I do, and it scares me as well," Molan told the Israeli news outlet Ynet.

She said that she was partly influenced by her late father, Maj.-Gen. Andrew James Molan, a prominent Australian military leader who backed the Jewish state and admired the Israeli military.

"I don't really believe in spirituality or signs or anything like that, but Dad was this incredible ally of Israel," Molan explained.  

“He came to Israel many times, and after my editorials started going viral, my mom sent me this screenshot. Dad had come to Israel in 2014 to investigate the war [Operation Protective Edge] and the headline of his investigation with a bunch of foreign retired generals was 'They put us to shame in how they conduct warfare,” she added.

Molan rejects the media narrative that accuses Israel of “war crimes” and “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza.

“There are enough experts in the world who also have no agenda who say that when it comes to minimizing civilian casualties, Israel does it almost better than anyone else in the world,” she said.

Molan says she is saddened by the harm inflicted on the Jewish state and the widespread international criticism of Israel's right to exist and defend itself against aggression.

"I feel so sorry for a country that has had some of the most appalling things in the world done to it. The depravity, the evil, the horror of it, and I look at a reaction of a world that should be saying, 'What can we do to help you?' Instead, the world went, 'How can we make this your fault? How can we condemn you?' And that's crazy," she argued.

During her visit, Israeli President Isaac Herzog personally thanked Molan for her moral clarity

“We followed you during this war as one with moral clarity. We are under this huge attack – endless attack – by people who don't understand, who don't get the picture. We are the ones who are fighting for the free world. We are the ones who are stopping this empire of evil. We're at this frontier of clash of civilization, of values, and we are to blame? And here comes somebody who has an opinion and moral clarity and we are very grateful,” Herzog stated.

Molan admitted that she often receives messages from people who back Israel but are afraid to voice their opinions in public due to the high threat level.

“People in the media often message me saying, 'I wish I could say that, too.’ They are scared,” Molan said.

Australia recorded a 400% increase in antisemitism since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in 2023.