Ms. Rachel calls out celebs who are doing nothing about purported genocide in Gaza

Children’s YouTube entertainer Ms.Rachel took another swipe at high-profile celebrities who have remained silent on Gaza in a social media post on Sunday, saying she is unimpressed by fame when public figures are “doing nothing” during what she has repeatedly called a genocide.“Do you want to meet insert huge celeb? Me: No,” Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms.
Rachel, said in an Instagram post.“I don’t fan girl over someone who is doing nothing during a genocide.”The post came less than a week after Campaign Against Antisemitism criticized Accurso in a statement to Fox News Digital over her declaration that she would not work with “privileged” people who stay silent about Gaza. A spokesperson from Campaign Against Antisemitism said that her standard amounted to an exclusionary political test.“Ms.
Rachel’s comments on who she is willing to work with are patently hypocritical,” the spokesperson said.“Acting as an adjudicator is a privileged position in and of itself, and subjecting people to political purity tests is by definition exclusionary.
One would have thought that someone who has admitted to having – apparently accidentally – liked a comment online saying ‘Free America from the Jews’, Ms.Rachel would be taking care to avoid these sorts of topics entirely.”“Evidently the temptation to ostracize those with differing views on the war in Gaza, many of whom will be Jews, is too strong for her to resist,” they continued. Accurso’s expanding political profile had also drawn pushback from parents.Washington Examiner contributor, author and homeschooling mother Bethany Mandel accused Accurso of amplifying what she called a Hamas narrative, telling Fox News Digital last week that the children’s entertainer had become an influential messenger about the war.“She is serving as their mouthpiece for a lot of Americans, not just children and not just the adults that follow her,” Mandel said.Accurso did not identify the ...