Ms. Rachel’s Politics Sparks Pushback from Parents: A ‘Mouthpiece’ for Hamas NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 22: Ms. Rachel visits SiriusXM Studios on September 22, 202Gary Gershoff/Getty Images Alana Mastrangelo1 Oct 2026661 3:33 Children’s YouTube and Netflix star Ms. Rachel’s political activism has sparked pushback from concerned parents, with one saying she serves as a mouthpiece for a false Hamas narrative, and puts activism ahead of education by exposing toddlers to ideas that erase basic sex categories at a stage when children first learn to organize the world that way.

Rachel Accurso, who is better known by her online persona Ms. Rachel, has been at the center of political controversy, which intensified after she started opining about Gaza and the Israel-Hamas war.

The children’s entertainer has also been accused of boosting Hamas figures and promoting claims that are later revealed as false.

“This is the case for a lot of liberals,” Bethany Mandel, a Washington Examiner contributor, author, and homeschooling mother of six, told Fox News. “They don’t see it as a political perspective at all. They just see the world in black and white and what they are doing is so clearly correct.”

Mandel argues that this mindset comes from creators who rarely leave their ideological “bubble” to engage people with people who have opposing views.

“It’s important to understand that she only cares about one narrative,” Mandel said of Accurso. “She only cares about this very false narrative where what’s happening in Gaza is a genocide, falsely categorizing it as such.”

“She amplifies numbers that are not real, the numbers of deceased children, the numbers of people who have died in general, she’s accepting a Hamas narrative on every single thing and amplifying it,” the author added.

Last year, for example, Accurso called Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza her “friend” — just days before Azaiza admitted he hid footage of Israeli hostages being beaten by a crowd in Gaza on October 7, 2023.

Earlier this year, the children’s entertainer faced scrutiny after she appeared to “like” a comment that said “free America from the Jews.”

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