Apr 9, 2025
Pro-Israel Group Is Coming For YouTuber Ms. Rachel
Pro-Israel group StopAntisemitism is coming after YouTuber Ms. Rachel over posts about the conflict in Israel.
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I saw a picture of two babies in Gaza
and their thighs are like this small.
We can't let children starve.
That is not who we are.
It doesn't say love every neighbor,
except there are so many reasons
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I stand strong in love.
I stand with everyone.
That's who I am.
This I know will come out.
Oh, but.
The woman that you just heard from,
unfortunately,
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has become the latest target
of a pro-Israel group that has encouraged
the Trump administration to investigate
her for possibly being a foreign agent.
Now, why would they do that?
Well, apparently she is drawing attention
to the atrocities committed by the Israeli
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government against the Palestinian people,
namely the children of Gaza.
And this organization wants to intimidate
her and prevent her from doing so.
So let's get into the details
on what's going on here.
So this pro-Israel group
is known as stop anti-Semitism.
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And they sent a letter
to Attorney General Pam Bondi
to urge her to investigate this YouTuber.
She creates YouTube videos for children.
None of her YouTube videos
delve into the current war on Gaza at all.
However, she's got her own
social media accounts as well.
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And on Instagram, she draws attention to
what is happening to the children of Gaza.
Clearly, I mean, as someone who creates
content for kids, she's someone who cares
about the well-being of children,
and what's happening on the ground in Gaza
is absolutely breaking her heart.
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So this story was first reported by
the New York Post, and I encourage you all
to read the New York Post's piece on this,
because they shared their examples
of her saying things
that stop antisemitism takes issue with.
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And let's let's actually fast forward
to those graphics, because here.
Here are some examples
shared by the New York Post.
I don't know if they're sharing this as
justification for what Stop Antisemitism
is doing, but here's one example.
Let's go to, this photo where she says
this is a prayer for children in Gaza
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that was shared by the New York Post.
Okay.
So is there something wrong
with her saying that?
Okay, let's go to the other photo.
Please stop hurting them.
Wow.
Offensive. Super offensive.
Now let's get back to stop antisemitism.
They claim.
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Look, we value freedom of speech.
Don't get us wrong,
we totally value freedom of speech.
It's just that she's sharing
misinformation about what's happening
to children in Gaza.
I don't believe that it's misinformation.
I'll explain why in just a minute, but
they believe maybe there's some likelihood
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that she's getting funded by foreign
actors to propagate this misinformation.
So Pam Bondi,
we want you to investigate it.
So we have some excerpts
from their letter to the DOJ.
And I want to get into it.
So the content creator
is known as Miss Rachel.
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Her real name is Rachel Griffin Caruso.
And, apparently she has frequently
posted about the living conditions
in Gaza for children to her,
to her 2.5 million Instagram followers.
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Unlike her YouTube content, her Instagram
posts are more geared toward adults.
She has highlighted the destruction
in Gaza since Hamas's war with Israel
began in 2023,
and has called for better conditions
and humanitarian aid for the children.
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Now that's an excerpt from a Hill piece.
Believe me,
I didn't miss that ridiculous framing
about how this is Hamas's war on Israel.
Really?
What Hamas did on October 7th
was absolutely disgusting.
Got no love for Hamas.
I have no interest
in defending Hamas at all.
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Well, really, you're going to frame it as,
oh, this is a war on Israel
when Hamas ain't got no military,
they have no defense capabilities.
Israel is backed by the top
military superpower, the United States.
They have the Iron Dome.
Their defense capacity
capabilities are incredible.
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Like really we're going to.
Okay, so I got that framing.
I think it's ridiculous.
Now fast forward to Laura Rees who's
the director of Stop Antisemitism org.
She feels aggrieved, aggrieved that
this incredibly popular content creator
would dare to draw attention
to the plight of Palestinian children.
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So she writes this letter to Pam Bondi
and the DOJ, saying given the vast sums
of foreign funds that have been directed
toward propaganda propagandizing
our young people on college campuses,
we suspect there is a similar dynamic
in the online influencer space, right?
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Okay.
So, the highly popular
children's content creator
who has been viewed 10 billion times,
is really hard up on cash and needs
to reach out to foreign actors for money
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and is, you know,
propagating false narratives about what's
happening in Gaza as a result.
Okay. Okay.
In other words, she thinks that this
highly popular person is taking money.
From what? Iran.
Hamas.
Or could it be that she has two eyes, two
ears, and is able to see what's happening
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based on the videos coming from Gaza?
They further write, we urge you
and your office, meaning the DOJ,
to investigate whether or not Miss Rachel
is being remunerated to disseminate
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Hamas aligned propaganda to her
millions of followers, as this may violate
the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
I actually think Stop antisemitism.org
should be investigated
to see if there's any foreign money
flowing into their coffers.
I just suspect it.
That's it, I just suspect.
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I just suspect that this organization is
getting funded by Israel or other foreign
countries who are sympathetic to Israel.
That's all it takes, right?
Just suspicion.
Now, do they have any evidence,
any real indication that this content
creator has taken money from
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a foreign government or foreign players
in order to spread misinformation
about Gaza and what Israel is doing?
No they don't.
Make no mistake
about what they're doing here.
They're just trying to shut her up.
They're just trying to intimidate her.
I look through her content.
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I didn't see a single example
of her spreading anti-Semitism.
I've seen examples of her
feeling absolutely heartbroken
over what's happening to children
on the ground in Gaza.
But that's the thing.
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There's this notion by Israel
and by pro-Israel groups
that very well might be funded by Israel.
I have no idea but that if you just
censor any type of criticism
over what the Israeli government is doing
right now, people are people are
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not going to know about it, right?
We're just not going to find out.
We all know. We all see it.
What they're doing right now in trying
to intimidate people who are speaking
out against what the IDF is doing,
how Israel is prosecuting this war
is they are actually expanding
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antisemitism, not just in this country,
but around the world.
When you're trying to silence Americans
because you don't like their speech about
how a foreign country is behaving, that
unfortunately leads to more antisemitism.
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But, you know, they're hell bent on that
because they can't handle even a little
bit of criticism against precious Israel,
even as they are openly talking about
starving people to death as they're openly
discussing ethnic cleansing on land
that belongs to the Palestinian people.
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I mean, maybe Stop Antisemitism
needs to have a talk with members of
the far right Israeli government, because
they're the ones propagating antisemitism
all across the world as we speak.
Talking about dropping nukes on Gaza.
Come on.
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We urge you and your office
to investigate whether or not Miss Rachel
is being basically paid okay,
to spread this, this content.
Her posts have largely ignored
the suffering of Israeli victims,
hostages and Jewish children, while she
consistently amplifies misinformation
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from Hamas and other anti-Israel sources.
Well, it's interesting
because the Hill actually, you know,
looked into the allegation that Miss
Rachel didn't show a shred of sympathy
for the children who were Victimized by
the atrocities carried out by Hamas and.
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Oh, wow, would you look at that?
Apparently she has previously
posted about that.
She cares for all children,
Palestinian and Israeli.
She defended her actions
and fundraising efforts for kids in Gaza.
So again, the Hill looked at it.
They're like, no.
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She has previously posted about, you know,
what happened to those Israeli kids.
Now, in the letter to Bondi,
the group said that Miss Rachel
has been incorporating Hamas,
Hamas like propaganda or Hamas like
propagated images and stories into her
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content and by Hamas like content.
This is what they're talking about.
Okay, so they're talking about a video
or a photo that she shared of a child
that was, suffering from starvation.
And so the group argues
that it's misinformation.
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They claim that the child wasn't
suffering from starvation, even though
Israel has openly said multiple times
that they're doing blockades
of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
The group claims no, she's suffering from
or he is suffering from cystic fibrosis,
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not from starvation.
The child's mother, by the way, has said
that her child is suffering from both.
Which again, is totally feasible
considering the fact that Israel
has said publicly on the record
that they're blocking humanitarian aid
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from the beginning of this war,
they've bombed every hospital,
they've bombed every refugee camp,
they have bombed residential buildings.
The president of the United States,
Donald Trump, just this week talked
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about how unlivable the Gaza Strip is,
by the way, partly thanks to the United
States supplying Israel with the bombs
that they're dropping on said children.
But really, they're going to try to
pretend like there haven't been atrocities
committed by the IDF in the Gaza Strip.
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The IDF killed three hostages
themselves that we know of.
There's likely more, considering the
aerial bombardments that aren't just going
to victimize the people in Gaza,
the Palestinian people in Gaza, but also
of the hostages who are, you know,
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being held captive in the Gaza Strip.
This is just insane now.
And if the organization is worried
about the spread of misinformation,
they do have a very funny way of putting
it or showing it, I should say, because,
in a tweet that they recently posted,
they accused Miss Rachel of promoting
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a starving child from Gaza photo,
which was actually a cystic fibrosis case.
That's what I had already talked about.
But Hamas's false stat
of 14,000 plus kids killed.
They claim that 72% of deaths
are combat aged men.
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That's just not true. It's just not true.
And if they want to hide the fact
that Israel has slaughtered all those
innocent children in the Gaza Strip.
And by the way, they just killed
a 14 year old boy in the West Bank
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who was also an American citizen.
By the way, if they want to hide
that reality from the public,
understand what that means.
That is an admission
that the IDF is carrying out atrocities.
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Okay.
They don't want anyone
to know about these things
because it makes Israel look really bad.
And guess what?
The current Israeli government, which I
separate, I see as distinct from the
people, the civilians of Israel is evil.
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What they are doing is ethnic cleansing
in Gaza at best,
and a genocide at worst at worst.
So that is the reality.
We all see what's happening on the ground.
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And while they're doing everything
they can to intimidate anyone
who dares to speak the truth
about what's happening on the ground,
they're not going to win this PR nightmare
for, you know,
pro-Israel interest groups.
Because when you see video after video,
after video of a mother wailing
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on top of their child who is dead
as a result of these aerial bombardments,
when you see a father holding his
decapitated baby as a result of
what the IDF is doing in the Gaza Strip,
there is no level of intimidation from a
disgusting group like this that's going to
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shut people like me up, that's for sure.
We all see what's happening.
I am the child, okay?
I am the product of ancestors
who suffered a genocide.
And I'll be damned if a group like this
is going to shut someone like me up
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about what Israel is doing
to the Palestinian people, not just
in the Gaza Strip, but also the West Bank.
I hope Miss Rachel stays strong.
I hope she understands
this is just an attempt
to intimidate her and nothing more.
And shame on the Trump administration.
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For in various examples
that we've talked about on this show,
going along with these intimidation
tactics on behalf of a foreign country.
Is it America and Americans first,
or is it Israel first?
Because so far what we've seen
from the Trump administration
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is Israel comes first.
America might come second.
Are you going to be a puppet
for a foreign government, or are you going
to serve your people and protect them
from these intimidation tactics?
I think we all know what the answer is,
and it grosses me out beyond words.
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