Ms Rachel collects Woman of Year award in dress with Gaza kids’ art

Rachel Griffin Accurso – known to millions of children as popular children’s entertainer and educator ‘Ms Rachel’ – is officially one of the world’s most influential entertainers. She is also now officially Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year – and she accepted her award last night in a dress featuring art by children in Gaza, with a powerful, moving speech that was all about the children whose drawings it featured:

Ms Rachel: standing firm

Ms Rachel has been the target of hate and threats from the US Israel lobby for months for her outspoken empathy with the children of Gaza being maimed and slaughtered by the occupation during Israel’s genocide. She was also refused by three venues in New York City when she tried to arrange a birthday party for Rahaf, a three-year-old Palestinian girl she has befriended and supported and who lost both legs in an Israeli bomb.

But last night she put the Israel lobby to shame – and not just in the US. Her dress is reminiscent of a display of plates featuring Palestinian children’s art that Zionist lobby group ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’ pressured Guy’s hospital in London into removing by falsely claiming that Jewish patients had felt threatened by it. There had been no complaints at all from Jewish patients.

UKLFI, which has hounded those who speak out against Israel’s genocide, particularly in the NHS and the entertainment industry, is now under investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for alleged “vexatious and baseless” legal threats to silence support for Palestine. The group also has US links – Natasha Hausdorff, one of its main spokespeople, reportedly screamed at far-right US podcaster Charlie Kirk at an ‘intervention’ about his plan to abandon his support for Israel and for ‘platforming’ right-wing critics of Israel.

UKLFI will probably be horrified this morning at Ms Rachel’s dress and even more so by her speech, which made clear why the Israel lobby so fears Palestinian children. Hopefully, in New York she is out of their reach if not that of their fellow advocates for the genocidal colony.

Featured image via the Canary