Erin Molan clashes with pro-Palestinian activist Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah over Israel-Hamas conflict

Sky News host Erin Molan has locked horns with pro-Palestinian activist Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah in a fierce argument on live TV.

Sky News host Erin Molan was accused of shedding “white woman tears” in a fierce argument with pro-Palestinian activist Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah on live TV.

Molan was interviewing the prominent Australian writer shortly after news broke of Israel’s 24-hour warning for civilians to evacuate Gaza.

Hamas terrorists invaded Israel from Gaza on Saturday, brutally murdering 1,300 people including children and babies.

In response Israel has launched more than 6,000 airstrikes on Gaza, warning civilians to move south as it prepares for an expected ground invasion.

Molan condemned Dr Abdel-Fattah, author of Coming of Age in the War on Terror, for failing to call out Hamas and recognise it as a terrorist organisation, leading to a heated exchange over past atrocities dealt by Israel.

Sky News host Erin Molan has locked horns with pro-Palestinian activist Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah in a fierce argument on live TV.

The body of a Hamas militant in a body bag is left on the street near a home at the kibbutz where dozens of civilians were killed days earlier by Hamas militants near the border.

A house is completely destroyed after being burned by Hamas militants during the attack.

She called out the academic for “defending Hamas in the past”, making reference to an ideas panel she sat on in 2021 with a known Hamas “terrorist”.

Dr Abdel-Fattah said she “does not see Hamas as a terrorist organisation” and repeatedly made reference to the historic “apartheid” being carried out on Palestinian civilians by the state of Israel.

She claimed that the current state of affairs is the culmination of many years of oppression on the Palestinian people, insinuating media hosts are not reporting the bigger picture.

“I have already said I condemn the violence that Hamas perpetrated, and it should be held to account,” she said.

“I don’t see them as a terrorist organisation. What is the purpose of a terrorist label here? “Let’s talk about Israel’s terrorism on Palestinians. Israel is the occupying power settler colony, it is the one that has the International Human Rights Organisation declaring it is practising apartheid.”

Dr Abdel-Fattah said she ‘does not see Hamas as a terrorist organisation’ and repeatedly made reference to the historic ‘apartheid’ being carried out on Palestinian civilians by the state of Israel.

Dr Abdel-Fattah said Palestine had been ‘under siege’ from Israel for decades.

Molan said she had cried while watching images of injured children in Gaza hospitals, to which Dr Abdel-Fattah responded: “God bless white woman’s tears”.

“My tears have existed for any atrocity that has occurred to any child in the world. I have asked you talk about what Hamas has done to Israeli babies,” Molan said.

“You said the reason Saturday occurred because your people have been oppressed. If you feel justified in a war, fight Israeli soldiers with guns, not killing babies.”

Denying the had “justified” their actions, Dr Abdel-Fattah went on to say Palestine had been under siege and denied basic human rights, and is outnumbered by the “occupying power” and “settler colony” of Israel.

She called for more focus on the Israeli state, who she believes are the true perpetuators of violence in the conflict-stricken region.