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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.”
Ms. Rachel said she would not “fan girl” over major celebrities she believed were “doing nothing during a genocide.” (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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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.
The children’s entertainer said she would still speak with influential celebrities privately in an effort to persuade them to address Gaza. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
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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 “huge celeb” she may have been referencing in her post. In the caption, however, she said she would still speak directly with prominent people if she believed she could persuade them to use their platforms.
“I’d have a conversation with someone with a massive platform any day to try and convince them to speak out. (And I have),” Accurso said.
Ms. Rachel faced renewed scrutiny over her Gaza activism as critics accused her of applying political “purity tests” to other public figures. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
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The post was the latest in a series of challenges Accurso has issued to celebrities concerning Gaza.
Last month, she pledged to match rapper Macklemore’s $1 million donation to Palestinian aid organizations and called on “every wealthy White celebrity” to do the same. During a separate appearance on comedian Ilana Glazer’s “It’s Open” podcast, she targeted celebrities she described as too famous to be canceled.
Accurso questioned why celebrities with secure careers would not publicly advocate for civilians in Gaza during the podcast appearance.
“If you are so famous, and you’re uncancellable, and you’re so famous and you won’t even say like, ‘Kids in Gaza should have schools, people in Gaza should have hospitals.’ Like you won’t say something so basic and like why can’t you risk something to help save lives?” Accurso said.
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The continued political activism comes as Accurso’s media empire continues to grow.
Accurso has more than 21 million YouTube subscribers and has donated roughly $22,500 to Democratic and progressive candidates since 2024. Her brand has also secured partnerships with Netflix, Penguin Random House and Spin Master.
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