Children’s YouTube personality Ms. Rachel says she will match rapper Macklemore’s $1 million donation to Palestinian relief organizations and is calling on “every wealthy White celebrity” to do the same.
The pledge, posted to Instagram Thursday, came a day after Macklemore announced he would donate earnings from his Loop Tour dates with Ed Sheeran to six groups: the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, HEAL Palestine, Gaza Soup Kitchen, Medical Aid for Palestinians, UNRWA USA National Committee and American Near East Refugee Aid.
Macklemore, 43, was dropped from Sheeran’s tour Monday after repeatedly calling for a “Free Palestine” and performing his song “Hind’s Hall” during an opening set at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey earlier this month.
Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, wrote that she plans to donate to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and framed the gesture as a matter of racial obligation.
“I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy White celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza,” Accurso wrote. “Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day. We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Accurso for comment but did not receive a response before publishing.
Macklemore has separately challenged New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to match his donation after Kraft declined to host the rapper at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts over his activism. Kraft responded that he had already committed $2 million to Palestinian aid in the region, citing his longstanding humanitarian work in the Middle East.
Accurso was among several progressive figures who criticized Sheeran after Macklemore’s removal from the tour, suggesting his silence amounted to racism.
“If more than 20,000 White children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts,” Accurso said. “Treating some children’s lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral.”
Accurso has drawn criticism from pro-Israel organizations over her repeated characterization of Israel’s conduct in Gaza as “genocide.”
Rabbi Yaakov Menken, executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, has argued her focus is selective.
“She claims to care about 35.5 million children suffering from acute malnutrition across Africa, the Middle East and Asia but spends an inordinate amount of time speaking about 0.031 million children in Gaza. When 0.09% of starving children receive 90% of her attention, something is wrong,” Menken said. “She had nothing to say about Israeli children being held hostage until seven months later, when the backlash became too loud to ignore. It is clear that her problem is not a deep concern for children, but that she is using her purported deep concern to mask something much darker.”
