Why is a pro-Israel group asking the US to investigate Ms Rachel?

If you believe that babies can tell when a person is truly good, then it should be no surprise that Ms Rachel – the beloved kids’ YouTube sensation – has remained on the right side of every sociopolitical debate since the image of her pink tee and denim dungarees became ubiquitous in households with children across the world.

But when Ms Rachel, whose given name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, began speaking out about the genocide in Gaza, pro-Israel rightwingers put a massive target on her back.

Accurso first made her stance public around May 2024, when she announced a fundraiser for children in Gaza and other war zones. Since then, she’s consistently drawn attention to the tragedy in Palestine by sharing statistics on the crisis along with images of Palestinian children with her social media audience of tens of millions of followers, and the right has been after her since.