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Ms. Rachel, Israeli Children Deserve Your Voice
(Times of Israel) Sarah Tuttle-Singer - Ms. Rachel is an early-childhood educator and YouTube creator whose gentle speech-development videos have been a salvation for millions of exhausted parents. I love that Ms. Rachel fights for children. But I can't escape the ache that she doesn't fight for all of them. When she posts about the suffering of children in Gaza, she rarely acknowledges the Israeli children who were murdered, burned alive, executed in front of their parents, or taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7. She doesn't mention the babies dragged into tunnels. The toddlers orphaned. The ones kept underground for weeks in the dark. The ones strangled by terrorists. We shouldn't have to beg a children's champion to remember our murdered children. When you tell millions of people that Israel is funded by America specifically "to kill children," you are stepping into the architecture of the blood libel - the medieval accusation that Jews murder children on purpose. Now, in 2025, the same story resurfaces, wrapped in compassionate language and delivered as an Instagram post from a beloved children's educator. No mention of the terror attack that launched the war. No mention of Hamas using civilians as shields. No mention of Israeli families still burying their dead, or still reeling from the horror of captivity and survival. Israel - the place burying murdered children - becomes the place murdering them. Millions of people saw her post. And the applause rolled in. A public figure speaks about protecting children, and the only children consistently absent from her compassion are ours - the ones murdered, tortured, burned alive, or kidnapped. We deserve better. Our children deserve better. And so do the children in Gaza - who suffer terribly, not because Israel wants them dead, but because Hamas deliberately hides behind them and dares the world to blame the Jews. The writer is New Media Editor at the Times of Israel.