Childrens content creator Ms. Rachel is facing backlash after admitting she misclicked and accidentally liked an antisemitic Instagram comment while attempting to delete it.
The controversy began when Ms. Rachel, whose legal name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, posted a graphic reading Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo, Free Iran, accompanied by national flags, a post she later removed. According to The Post Millennial, one user responded in the comments with the message, "free America from the Jews, which several accounts, including Accursos, proceeded to like.
Accurso subsequently deleted the offensive comment and attempted damage control, writing, I hate antisemitism. In the caption of her apology post, she claimed she believed she had already removed the remark and was just tapping and thought [the comment] was deleted, insisting that she routinely scrubs antisemitic content from her platforms.
People are allowed to make mistakes, she added, stressing that she does not tolerate bigotry of any kind and that I am against all forms of hate, including antisemitism against the Jewish people. Her explanation, however, has done little to quiet concerns among parents and Jewish advocacy groups already wary of her increasingly political messaging.
In a second post, Accurso released a video speaking directly to the camera, saying she was so broken over this. She explained that she believed she was deleting the comment but instead hit like and hide, a function that conceals a comment from public view while preserving the like.
She insisted she would never agree with the antisemitic statement and pointed to her Jewish relatives and friends as evidence of her stance. Accurso also said she has mistakenly liked content before and chalked up the error to being old and not as good with touching things online.
At 43, Accurso commands a massive audience, with millions of Instagram followers and tens of millions of YouTube subscribers for her Songs for Littles early-learning videos aimed at babies and toddlers. The incident lands amid growing scrutiny of her political commentary on the Israel-Hamas war, with critics accusing her of smuggling a far-left, anti-Israel worldview into content marketed to very young children.
Opponents argue that the popular entertainer is attempting to indoctrinate kids into a radical ideology under the guise of education. The watchdog group StopAntisemitism went so far as to nominate her as Antisemite of the Year in 2025 and urged US Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether she is being compensated to push propaganda.
While she recently partnered with Elmo, Accurso has also aligned herself with hard-left figures, collaborating with and joining the transition team of socialist New York politician Zohran Mamdani. In May, she appeared on anti-Israel journalist Mehdi Hasans Zeteo News, where she attacked the Jewish state using Hamas-supplied casualty figures that were later debunked.
Notably, Accurso remained silent about Hamas in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 terrorist atrocities, which left 38 children dead and 42 children taken hostage. She waited until nearly two weeks laterafter Israel launched its military response in Gazato issue a statement, a timing that has only deepened concerns among many parents who expect childrens entertainers to protect kids, not expose them to extremist narratives.
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