Politics
Ms. Rachel Emotionally Asks Leaders ‘Where Have You Been?’ Amid Reports of Children’s Deaths in Gaza
Ms. Rachel is speaking out for children everywhere.
After a United Nations-commissioned report accused Israel of targeting children in Gaza, the famed YouTube personality, 43, is making her voice heard.
“Where have you been, leaders?” Ms. Rachel (whose real name is Rachel Griffin-Accurso) asked in an emotional message shared Wednesday, June 24, on Instagram.
The popular children’s entertainer — who has a YouTube following of 20.3 million subscribers — referred back to the U.N. report, which stated that about 30% of the Palestinians killed from October 2023 to October 2025 (more than 20,000) were children.
“What made you speak out about other people’s human rights but not the children of Gaza?” she asked in her latest call to action. “Did you not see these kids as kids because of where they were born?”
“Did you not think those kids were as loved, as cherished?” she continued, demanding answers. “Did you not think that they had beating hearts like your kids?”
As quotes about the reported killings of children filled the screen, Ms. Rachel asked, “How could you go to sleep at night knowing you didn’t say anything?”
In the caption of her post, Ms. Rachel called for action, writing: “We won’t forget your silence. It is complicity in the genocide of children. You have to do something! Why are you letting this genocide continue to take children’s precious lives?!”
Israel has denied claims of genocide during its war in Gaza, according to the Associated Press.
While Ms. Rachel has typically strayed away from promoting her political beliefs, she declared in a March interview with NBC News, “I am political.”
In recent days, she has been particularly vocal, regarding both the conflict in the Middle East as well as what is happening in the United States amid President Donald Trump‘s immigration crackdown.
The YouTuber recently visited Delaney Hall, a facility used for immigrant detention in Newark, New Jersey, and delivered letters from children to Congress.
