We Need to Talk About Ms. Rachel

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This is a breakdown takedown of Ms. Rachel.

Ooh, that was dramatic.

Nah, this isn't really a takedown.

I just thought it sounded cool.

Believe me, I don't want to do a takedown of Ms. Rachel.

She teaches kids.

She's a mom, she's a neurodivergent.

My daughter loves her and I think in her heart, she's a good person trying to do good in the world.

She's also built one of the most extraordinary platforms in the history of children's media.

Over 12 billion views, the number one children's show on Netflix, 19.2 million YouTube subscribers.

That's more than the entire Jewish population of planet Earth.

With such an enormous platform comes enormous responsibility and should come with enormous accountability, which is what I want to talk about today.

Whether knowingly or not Rachel Griffin, ASO has used her massive reach to unapologetically cause significant harm to the Jewish community by subtly shifting the mindset of millions of parents toward hatred of Israel specifically and Jewish people broadly.

And when confronted about it, she has been defensive, deflective, and demonizing toward the very people voicing these concerns.

And I have the data to back it up.

That's right, friends.

I pulled all 683 of Ms. Rachel's Instagram posts from October 7th, 2023 through March 16th, 2026.

And what those posts reveal is a story not fit for children that must be told clearly, objectively, and with receipts.

Let's start on October 7th when Palestinian terrorists murdered 1200 people, 36 of them children killed point blank in their beds or in front of their parents, or in some cases tied to their parents.

30 more kids were taken hostage.

The youngest of whom was a nine month old baby.

Ms. Rachel posted on Instagram that day about having messy mom hair.

So maybe she was caught off guard.

Digital creators schedule content in advance all the time.

Surely she would eventually post about Israeli children, right?

She did in May of 24, 7 months later, and only after receiving backlash for her silence.

Quote, I care deeply for all children, Palestinian children, Israeli children, children in the us, all children in every country, and that's one of only three posts out of the 683 in which she explicitly mentions the words Israeli children at all.

She did, however, mention the Bibis kids the day they were discovered to have been murdered more than a year after their kidnapping.

The post one line comments off.

Arielle and fear heart.

Heart children have the right to be safe and should never be held hostage.

She mentioned them again two days later when their bodies were returned, but did not say who killed them or how, how long they'd been held or anything.

About October 7th, the word hostages appears a whopping 11 times out of 683.

With the first mention, 451 days after all of them were taken into Gaza.

Now, lest you think I'm being unfair, let's look at every other horrible conflict where children have been victimized during this timeframe.

In Sudan, more than half a million children have died from malnutrition in Congo.

Sexual violence against children is doubling year over year in Ukraine.

Between 20,000 and 700,000 children have been kidnapped by Russia in Iran.

Tens of thousands of protestors massacred in the streets, children among them.

In the 27 months between October 7th and January 1st, 2026, Ms. Rachel posted about all of these conflicts a combined eight times and all were about Sudan.

And three were partnership posts with an NGO.

In contrast, the word Gaza appears in 234 of her 683 posts.

That's roughly one third of everything she's posted in two and a half years.

At her peak in August of 20 25, 80 2% of her posts were about Gaza Palestine genocide, or the Israeli government, and she didn't just post about GA and children, she built relationships with them.

Named Photographed, visited, returned to for months, multiple times.

She featured a beautiful young Palestinian girl named Rah, a double amputee, and visited her, held her.

FaceTimed with her family, bought her jewelry.

She connected with seven Gazen child artists, brought them to the un, featured their art on her dress.

When accepting her award for Glamor Magazines Woman of the Year, she named them, documented their dreams, humanized them completely.

That's a mitzvah, a big one, and it's worth saying so.

But what about the rest of the world's children?

What about Israeli children?

We never heard about their dreams.

She posted a few times about a soccer field in the West Bank.

The Israeli military was set to demolish over a permit dispute.

You know what soccer field?

She said nothing about the one where 12 Israeli Drew's kids got blown up by a Hezbollah rocket while they were playing on it.

Let me be crystal clear.

Caring about Palestinian children is not the issue.

It is nobody's issue.

Caring only about Palestinian children is not even the issue.

There's a lot of suffering in this world, and it's impossible for any human being to hold or care about or even be aware of it all.

The issue is caring exclusively about Palestinian children while positioning yourself as a universal advocate for all children, and then gaslighting the people who point out the asym.

If she'd said, this is my cause, this is who I care about.

Okay, fine, so be it.

But you cannot claim equal care for all children when your own public record flatly contradicts that assertion.

One of the baked in features of anti-Zionism is the duality of the implicit versus the explicit.

As much harm can be done by what's not being said as by what is.

Now many of Ms.

Rachel's posts are explicitly anti-Zionist spreading Libels and Hamas talking points over and over again for months on end, but I'm not even gonna talk about those.

We know what those are.

We know how they work, lots of people post them, and I believe based on the misinformation she has, that she truly feels she's witnessing the catastrophe of her lifetime and has responded accordingly.

Damaging yes, insidious.

I don't believe so.

Just ignorant.

The posts are earnest and explicit.

Still should have made sure to get it right with a platform that big but not insidious.

I think the deeper, more corrosive harm comes from the posts in which Ms. Rachel's villainizing of Jews is implicit.

Here's one.

People hate me because I see one Palestinian child as equal to any other child.

The implication there is that the people coming after her are monsters who hate her for caring about Palestinians.

Their criticism is rooted, not in concern about bias or accuracy or impact on the Jewish community, but in the disgusting belief that Palestinian kids should not be treated as equal.

In fact, she implies their concerns are not even legitimate concerns at all, but hate irrational, blind, animalistic.

And who are these quote people?

She doesn't say she doesn't have to.

Her audience primed by months of this content fills in the blank themselves.

It's the Jews.

Here's another.

Wanting kids to live isn't anti-Semitic.

Now if you're already on Team Rachel or just not paying attention, you might not see anything wrong with that sentence.

It's technically true.

After all, wanting kids to live is not antisemitic, and yet those five words do an enormous amount of anti Jew demonization In this framing, the only possible reason a Jew would call Ms. Rachel antisemitic is not because she's done anything.

Jews might find harmful, but because she wants children to be alive.

From which we infer that those evil Jews do not.

That is a masterclass in demagoguery, employing defensiveness, deflection, and gaslighting to emotionally manipulate her audience as she destroys the reputation of an entire community while appearing to say nothing controversial at all.

In perhaps her most explicitly implicit post.

She describes quote, good people as those who want kids not to be killed or lose limbs and quote, not normal, absurd people as those who accuse others of being antisemitic or paid by Hamas just for wanting basic human rights for kids.

It couldn't be possible to her that what upset folks is how she ignored Israeli children or spread the genocide liable more than.

30 times while using the word Hamas only twice in almost 700 posts.

It must be that these not normal, absurd people, whoever they are, just don't want kids to have rights and would prefer they lose their limbs and die.

She never has to say Jews don't care about Palestinians or Jews are the enemy of humanitarian values.

She just posts false binaries that position her as good and her Jewish critics as evil.

Then lets her followers go buck wild in the comment section.

She might not post explicitly hateful language herself, but she sure built the room where it lives.

Now wait a minute.

We've seen her say supportive things about Jews, right?

Sure.

But almost every mention falls into one of two categories.

She either invokes Jewish people as evidence that she's not antisemitic or she responds to a specific act of anti Jew violence with a performative text-based condolence that lasts exactly one post comments off in two and a half years.

There is not one post that celebrates mainstream Jewish identity or community, or the perspective of the overwhelming majority of Jewish people who support Israel's right to exist and reject the genocide framing.

The Jews who do appear in her feed are a curated selection of the most anti-Zionist voices available, deployed every time to make the same argument.

I can't be causing harm to Jews because look at all these Jews who support me, and by the way, agree exactly with my point of view.

When Ms. Rachel wants Jewish cover, she reaches for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, or rabbis for ceasefire, two of the most explicitly anti-Zionist Jewish orgs in America, whom she called my heroes, and with whom she tended a Shabbat dinner where everyone was against the genocide.

The only human rights org she invokes is BET sem.

Israel's token anti Zionist organization.

The only time she invokes Jews in a positive light is when they're in relationship with Palestinians.

Like when she posted, I have the most beautiful community around me of Jewish people who care so deeply about Palestinians or when she posted about the organization.

Parents circle.

Hashtag Gaza.

All her on-camera buddies are anti Zionist Jewish or otherwise.

Gabor mate, Zoran Momani Hamas Sympathizer Moaz Zaza who said, may God curse the Jews and praised Yasir.

It's the starting lineup of the anti Zionist All Stars.

She gave her first public interview about the conflict to anti-Israel advocate, Medi Hassan on his channel, eo, not the Today Show or CBS or any neutral outlet eo.

Something no one even knew existed until either that interview or this monologue.

And of course, she's a loud and proud member of Artists for Ceasefire who got their own breakdown takedown in this Instagram video I made back in 2024.

The community she's built is not the community of someone trying to understand a complex conflict.

It's the community of someone who chose a side and surrounded herself with voices that confirm it.

While using the token Jewish voices in that community as proof she can't possibly be doing harm to Jews, this is called inoculation.

You introduce a small dose of the thing you're accused of to build immunity to the charge.

Her Jewish friends are not evidence of care for the wider Jewish community.

They are her defense against accountability to it.

And then there's January 21st, 2026.

The incident, well, four incidents really.

First, she posted free Palestine, free Sudan, free Congo, free Iran, and under it a user wrote Free America from the Jews.

Ms. Rachel liked the comment, which read as liked by author for hours two.

When a fan messaged her about it, she said she'd already deleted it, checked it was in fact, deleted, and then confirmed it was deleted.

But the comment was not deleted and was still there the next day.

Still liked by Ms. Rachel.

Three.

After a tearful apology video, an anti-Israel account commented, spoiler alert, they left the comment themselves implying Jews planted it to frame her.

Ms. Rachel responded, Ooh, four.

She then pinned that comment to the top of the apology video.

Her response was to explain that she'd had trouble with the interface, that she moves too fast, that it's okay to be human, and it's okay to make mistakes, and that I'm old, so I am not as good with touching things online.

I guess she apologized for the confusion and then pivoted saying that her advocacy is beautiful and it shouldn't be controversial to say how kids deserve to be treated.

In a second apology, she again, ends with a pivot.

I'm always going to speak out for kids whose human rights are being violated.

She could have said, I'm sorry to the Jewish community, or, I see I have caused harm, or I should reflect on the fact that my platform has become an environment in which anti-Semitic comments consistently appear in my feed.

But instead, she turned her apology for liking free America from the Jews into a statement about her own bravery in speaking out for Gaza.

Indeed, she has never suggested that the Jewish community's concerns about her might be legitimate, only that they are cynical or politically motivated.

She has treated Jewish self-advocacy as the antithesis to children's safety, and she has done this while posting.

I love my Jewish friends and neighbors one time and going to a Shabbat dinner where everyone agreed with her that is not solidarity with Jews.

That is the performance of solidarity deployed in service of a narrative that consistently measurably and at scale frames Jewish concerns as the enemy of children.

Something else she does consistently is deflect accountability by urging Jews who challenged her to go after the real antisemitism.

She posted.

Antisemitism is rising and it's real, and we need to address it.

Saying people are antisemitic because they care about Palestinians, has kept people silent and caused more death of kids and innocent people.

It's caused a genocide to continue.

She acknowledges antisemitism is real.

Then argues that Jewish people raising concerns about it are causing a genocide.

According to Ms. Rachel, Jewish self-defense in the face of bigotry makes kids die.

That is not combating antisemitism.

That is using the deaths of Palestinian children to delegitimize Jewish voices, and it got 155,000 likes.

After the group stop, antisemitism nominated her for Antisemite of the Year.

Ms.

Rachel, who is not Jewish accused the org who is of taking away from quote the real antisemitism.

She also accused them of going after people of color, which I obviously don't need to explain.

She also is not.

And again, instead of entertaining the fact that perhaps Jewish advocacy orgs know something about what hate against us looks like, she bemoaned the toll it had taken on her and how her kids shouldn't have to deal with the consequences of this, which to be clear only happened because they quote accidentally overheard her talking about it.

For the record, I don't think Ms.

Rachel is an antisemite.

I think that's inaccurate and cheapens the words true meaning, and I think the barrage of those accusations likely makes her even more defensive, more indignant, and more unlikely to listen to us when we talk.

I don't think she hates Jews or believes anti Jew tropes or wants to see Jews killed or even ostracized.

And in fact, I think she genuinely cares about Jews, or at least really believes she does.

The more accurate designation would be that she's an ideologically captured narcissist, who dodges accountability manufactures victimhood, and protects her own self image at all costs, even when that means causing great harm to others.

I know she does all this because she's done it to me.

I've been in touch with Ms. Rachel for some months now.

I even gave her the heads up that I was gonna be writing this monologue in case she wanted to talk to which she responded.

Antisemitism is rising, and I should please focus on someone who isn't her.

She insisted she's an ally, to which I responded.

A true ally listens when their ally says, you are doing us great harm and does the hard work of listening and understanding and repairing the harm, to which she responded, I've done that heart emoji, and that's it in a nutshell.

She's just not interested in getting this right, as Ms.

Rachel herself said to excuse that time.

She repeatedly liked pinned and replied to anti-Semitic comments entirely by accident.

It's okay to be human.

It is okay to get things wrong and be humbled by them.

I'm willing to bet that if you put yourself in her position and a large portion of an ethnic minority community accused you of being bigoted against them, you'd probably react differently, but she's not interested.

And that commitment to being strong and wrong is what makes her actions genuinely pernicious.

The people reading, liking, and commenting on all of her deflective, defensive and demonizing posts are not fringe actors.

They're parents.

They're people who came to her page for the I'm So Happy song, and who have been slowly and methodically taught to associate Jewish concerns about antisemitism with indifference to children dying.

This is how hostile anti-Jewish environments are created within social norms today.

Not with tiki torches and Nazi salutes, but with a woman in a headband and overalls, crying, real tears over real children who has structured her entire public narrative so that Jewish advocacy reads as opposition to childhood itself.

One final piece of data for you.

All 234 posts that mention Gaza.

Every post where Israel or Jewish appear in a negative light.

And every post mentioning antisemitism in the context of an all lives matter talking point, have open comments.

These comment sections are what have built the engaged radicalized audience.

We've documented today the 13 posts sympathetic to Jews or Israelis.

You guessed it, comments off all 13 of them.

No opportunity for her audience to respond, engage, share, or build community.

That is not an accident.

That is a deliberate choice about whose grief gets to be communal and whose gets to be silenced, whose suffering builds a movement and whose gets buried.

Ms. Rachel likes to say, one day our grandchildren will ask us what we did.

Well Ms. Rachel, we know what you did.

Maybe now.

If you finally care to listen, you'll know too.