Erin Molan: ABC should stop making excuses for the ugly face of hate

Erin Molan has hit out at ABC’s Media Watch and says she won’t be shamed for telling the truth when it comes to anti-Israel attacks.

On Wednesday night in Sydney up to a dozen cars were vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti, and a vehicle was set alight. The words ‘F.ck Israel’ were spray painted on cars and buildings.

Anyone who doesn’t think anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head — not just elsewhere in the world, but in our own country as well — is kidding themselves.

I’m only being a little sarcastic when I say that I am waiting for the ABC’s Media Watch to reveal that 10 years ago a local boy of Jewish descent said something dubious, therefore the attacks are justified and, indeed, the fault of all Jewish and Israeli people.

After all, that’s basically what the program did earlier this week, seeming to blame Jewish soccer fans for a series of anti-Semitic attacks centred around a soccer match in Amsterdam.

I proudly featured in their report and will not be shamed for telling the truth. I will not be convinced by anyone that SOME fans tearing down a flag resulted in a ‘Jew hunt’ that was not only justified but deserved.

I condemned that behaviour by Israeli fans, by the way — well prior to that episode airing. For a program that accuses others of ‘glossing over facts’ they do a fine job of it themselves.

Cars were damaged overnight with anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney’s eastern suburb of Woollahra. Picture: jeremy Piper

The ABC would never, ever, try to justify any other minority group attacked in that way. In fact they’d be the first to go harder than anyone else.

So why are Jews different?

There are idiotic soccer fans all over the world, but I’ve never seen bad behaviour by some result in the hunting down of others based solely on their ethnicity or religion.

It’s akin to justifying a woman being beaten up by her husband for “being rude”. Disgraceful.

Both sets of soccer fans behaved poorly beforehand, but only people of one religion were hunted down afterwards and I could only find one religion of people who ended up in hospital wounded.

Every single time the attempt is made to justify disgraceful attacks on Israelis and Jews thousands of kilometres away from the Middle East it sets the scene for more. People become emboldened to act on their hatred when they see excuses made for it. When they see attempts to justify it. When they aren’t called out for supporting terrorism and condemning the only democracy in the region.

How the illegal leaders in Iran and their evil proxies must be rubbing their hands together in glee as they look at the capitulation around the world of civil societies.

We are playing right into their hands.

I’ve been trying to figure out ever since October 7 last year how this has occurred. How so many people I had previously thought to have integrity and a moral compass have failed miserably.

How anyone can believe genuinely that if you care about innocent children in Gaza, as we all desperately do, that supporting the terrorists ruining their lives will help them. I’ve come up with the following: Terrorism and evil require three things to not only survive, but to thrive - weak leaders, compliant lackeys and silent majorities. That’s it.

Protesters gesture as they take part in a demonstration against the holding of the UEFA Nations League Group A2 football match between France and Israel. Picture: AFP

Weak leaders lay the entire foundation. They set the tone for what a country will accept and what it won’t.

Compliant lackeys make a lot of noise and are empowered by weak leaders.

The silent majority allows them to take up all the space and appear much bigger and more powerful than they are.

The only thing those of us not in government and not idiotic can do is speak up.

Otherwise they win and the consequences of that will mean a further degradation of the type of country our brave men and women have fought for and died for.

I had Dr Gad Saad on my Sky show recently and I asked him how people can genuinely believe that supporting Hamas is an act of care for those suffering in Gaza. He called it ‘suicidal empathy’ and revealed he’s just written a book on this very topic.

I liken it to something like Operation Sovereign Borders - when some called it cruel and heartless, most others, myself included, saw it as a necessary and powerful way to stop children drowning at sea and heinous people smugglers continuing their trade.

If only those who purport to stand for human rights and innocent children joined those trying to eliminate the terrorists responsible for their deaths, imagine how powerful and eventually peaceful our world would be.

Join me for ‘Erin’ on Sky News Australia at 5pm this afternoon. My two special guests are ‘war myth debunker’ John Spencer and Ukrainian Defence Advisor Yuri Sak