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Ms. Rachel's Hanukkah Hypocrisy: No Candle Can Wash Away Her Antisemitic Venom
Does Ms. Rachel think every evil Jew-hating thing she said and did the last two years is forgiven and forgotten? Because if she does, she's in for a rude surprise.
In a world where influencers shape the worldview of millions, especially impressionable kids, Rachel Griffin Accurso, aka "Ms. Rachel," stands out as a particularly insidious offender. Her pathetic stab at posting a Hanukkah video, only to yank it down when the backlash hit, smacks of desperate damage control, as if a half-hearted holiday nod could erase her history of spewing anti-Israel bile and peddling grotesque distortions about the Israel-Gaza war.
For Jews everywhere, this isn't forgiveness bait, it's a slap in the face, a cynical ploy that makes her betrayal worse, rather than healing it. Her painfully overly large smiles aren't going to get her any Jewish fans, and she will find that the internet has a long memory, when it's not so 'cool' to hate Jews anymore.
Accurso's sins are deliberate and damning, earning her a spot on StopAntisemitism's "Antisemite of the Year" shortlist for 2025, next to other 'lucky' contenders like Tucker Carlson.
With her massive YouTube and TikTok empire, she's raised funds for Gaza's children while painting Israel as a monster committing wholesale slaughter, conveniently ignoring Hamas's barbaric tactics that put those very kids in harm's way.
Take her reckless cries of "genocide," flung around in rallies and online rants, a libelous smear that cheapens the Holocaust's memory and fuels real-world hate against Jews.
In a now-infamous Instagram clip, she wailed about "anti-Palestinian racism" silencing voices on Gaza's suffering, but stayed mum on the rockets raining down on Israeli playgrounds or the infant hostages rotting in Hamas tunnels.
Worse still, her May 2025 sob story video spotlighted a Palestinian child scarred by an Israeli strike, using it to guilt-trip her audience into donations, while erasing the context of Hamas hiding weapons in civilian zones, turning neighborhoods into battlefields and kids into collateral.
Where's the video for the Israeli toddlers dodging sirens or the families shattered by October 7?
Her selective empathy isn't innocent; it's a calculated distortion that stokes antisemitism, contributing to the spike in attacks on synagogues and Jewish schools we've seen worldwide. Even her CNN chat with Christiane Amanpour in August 2025 was a masterclass in deflection, whining about "misunderstandings" instead of owning the poison she's spread.
This isn't just sloppy activism, it's a pattern straight out of the progressive playbook, where bashing Zionism masquerades as compassion, blurring lines into outright Jew-hatred. Accurso's rants on Israel's "intentional" bombings of innocents aren't just wrong; they're blood libels repackaged for the TikTok era, inflaming mobs and endangering lives. And now, with her deleted Hanukkah stunt, she dares invoke a festival of Jewish defiance against tyrants?
As one furious commenter on Threads put it, collaborating with divisive guests and trafficking in falsehoods doesn't vanish with a quick edit, it's etched in the digital record. Jewish forgiveness hinges on teshuvah: real remorse, full confession, and making amends. A vanishing video? That's evasion, not repentance.
At its core, Accurso's mess exposes the rot in influencer culture, chasing clicks by hopping causes, zero accountability required. Jews, battered by rising bigotry, aren't buying the act. Her flames of prejudice burn too bright for any candle to snuff out. Real solidarity means grappling with truth, not hiding behind holidays. Until she steps up, absolution stays off the table. And even then, we will be in no rush to wash awy her many sins.