Kids YouTube star Ms. Rachel defends her Gaza comments in talk with anti-Israel reporter

Children’s YouTube star “Ms.Rachel” appeared on anti-Israel journalist Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo news Monday to explain why she has been so outspoken about Israel’s war against Hamas.Rachel Griffin Accurso, who goes by “Ms.

Rachel” on her popular YouTube channel, which has 14.7 million subscribers, has shared several posts about the war’s effects on Palestinian children.“Over 14,000 precious children have been un-alived in Gaza.Gaza has the largest number of child amputees in history.

We can’t be silent about these kinds of conditions for children,” Accurso posted to her TikTok channel in Dec.2024, echoing the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry’s casualty statistics.Last month, the Hamas-controlled agency’s numbers were revised down by thousands and an analysis of those numbers found that 72% of those killed between the ages of 13 and 55 were males.“As a teacher, you care about all kids.

And I think with so many years of teaching, you just see them all as so similar.They all love to laugh, and they love to learn, and they love to play, and they deserve to play,” Accurso told Hasan, who previously worked for Qatar-funded Al Jazeera and MSNBC.Hasan has been a harsh critic of the Jewish State, accusing the IDF of killing “hungry people” and comparing it to the regimes of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.In 2021, Hasan rushed to defend Rep.

Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who suggested the U.S.and Israel were just as guilty of “war crimes” as terrorist groups like Hamas and the Taliban.

He also defended Omar after allegations of antisemitic rhetoric online in 2019.Critics have asserted that the “Songs for Littles” crooner is not merely speaking out for vulnerable children, but is in fact trying to indoctrinate kids into a far-left, anti-Israel ideology.Accurso allegedly did not immediately speak out against Hamas’ horrific Oct.7 terrorist attacks, which saw 38 children killed, seven of whom were between ze...