by Lindsay Kornick in Fox News
Children’s YouTuber star Ms. Rachel told Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday that the backlash she received for her social media posts on Gaza “doesn’t faze” her too much anymore.
The magazine reported that although Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, has spoken out on other political issues such as the Trump administration’s deportation policies or LGBTQ activism, her comments on the Israel-Hamas war drew the most “aggressive criticism.”
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Accurso has been criticized by pro-Israel organizations and groups that say her posts have shared anti-Israel propaganda by repeatedly accusing the Jewish nation of committing “genocide.”
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said in a statement to Fox News Digital, “To attempt to dress up Jew-hatred as a righteous cause is by no means new. No one is criticizing Rachel Accurso because she doesn’t ‘want kids to be killed and starved.’”
“She claims to care about 35.5 million children suffering from acute malnutrition across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, but spends an inordinate amount of time speaking about 0.031 million children in Gaza,” he added. “When 0.09% of starving children receive 90% of her attention, something is wrong.”
“She had nothing to say about Israeli children being held hostage until seven months later, when the backlash became too loud to ignore. It is clear that her problem is not a deep concern for children, but that she is using her purported deep concern to mask something much darker,” Menken concluded.
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Also published in 930 WFMD.
Photo: Rachel Accurso, on her Instagram