by Lindsay Kornick in Fox News
Children’s YouTube star Ms. Rachel announced Thursday that she plans to match singer Macklemore’s $1 million donation to Palestinian causes and urged “every wealthy White celebrity” to do the same.
In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Macklemore shared his plans to donate his earnings from the “Loop Tour” with Ed Sheeran to six organizations, including the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), HEAL Palestine, Gaza Soup Kitchen, Medical Aid for Palestinians, UNRWA USA National Committee and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA).
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Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, previously said in a statement to Fox News Digital, “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. 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,” he added. “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.”
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Illustration: Original graphic, Coalition for Jewish Values