The Antisemite Label Is Being Weaponized Against a Children's Educator

The Pattern

Ms. Rachel is the educator and creator behind Songs for Littles. Her brand makes research-based videos for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, using music, repetition, games, and developmental strategies to support speech, language, social-emotional learning, and caregiver-child connection.

Her public mission is direct: all children are capable, brilliant, and important. She has master’s degrees in early childhood development and music education. She advocates for access to high-quality early childhood education and serves as an ambassador for Save the Children and Room to Grow. The brand has expanded into family resources and learning products designed with developmental experts.

That is the person and the mission behind the name Ms. Rachel. It is the context missing from the label.

The group that named her is called StopAntisemitism. It is funded by a right-wing real estate millionaire. It claims to have gotten more than 400 people fired. And in March 2026, it was hit with a class action lawsuit for doxxing and defamation.

This is not a story about antisemitism. It is a story about what happens when a word that used to mean something specific gets deployed as a weapon against anyone who advocates for Palestinian lives.

Who is Ms. Rachel?

Ms. Rachel started Songs for Littles after her son experienced a speech delay and she struggled to find the right resources for him. The videos grew from that practical need. Her style is built around repetition, music, direct address, and respect for young minds. The goal is not simply to hold a child’s attention. It is to help children practice words, gestures, emotional skills, and connection with their caregivers.

The brand now includes age-specific videos, family resources, and products designed with developmental experts. Its stated purpose is to help children learn, bond, and thrive. That purpose is not separate from the person behind the character. It is the reason the character exists.

In 2024, she began using her social media platforms, not her children’s videos but her adult-facing accounts, to speak about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. PBS reported that she shared stories, raised funds, and met a 3-year-old girl named Rahaf, who lost her legs in an airstrike, through the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. She also spoke about malnutrition, displacement, and the effects of trauma on early brain development.

“My deep love and care for children doesn’t end at my children, at children I know, at children in this country,” she told PBS. “It is for all children in this world.”

This is the context. Ms. Rachel built a brand around early learning and care for children. She extended that care to children outside her own country.

For this, she was called an antisemite.

Who is StopAntisemitism?

StopAntisemitism was founded in 2018 by Liora Reznichenko, a social media influencer who goes by Liora Rez. The Intercept reported that the group is funded by the Adam Milstein Family Foundation, linked to the California-based real estate millionaire who has spent millions lobbying against BDS and pro-Palestinian advocacy on college campuses. InfluenceWatch confirmed the Milstein funding. Media Bias/Fact Check rates the group “Right Biased” and “Questionable,” citing its “strong pro-Israel advocacy, alignment with conservative donor networks, and consistent promotion of propaganda.”

The Intercept documented that StopAntisemitism claims to have “profiled more than 1,000 people” and that “over 400 of them have been fired.” Rez described this as a “remarkable success rate.”

The group maintains an “Antisemite of the Week” feature on its website. The Guardian reported that the list has included Gaza-based journalist Bisan Owda, climate activist Greta Thunberg, rapper Macklemore, and actress Cynthia Nixon. Ms. Rachel was added to the list in late 2025, when StopAntisemitism named her a top-10 finalist for “Antisemite of the Year.”

The common thread is not antisemitism. It is advocacy for Palestinians.

The Motaz Azaiza smear

StopAntisemitism accused Ms. Rachel of “pushing Hamas propaganda to millions” and hosting “a terrorist sympathizer who celebrated the 10/7 massacre & openly idolizes Yahya Sinwar.”

The “terrorist sympathizer” is Motaz Azaiza. He is a Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza. TIME named him one of the 100 most influential people of 2024. World Press Photo gave him an award. CNN profiled him. He spent 108 days documenting Israeli bombardment with a camera and a press flak jacket before being evacuated.

Calling him a terrorist sympathizer is a choice. It is a choice that outruns the evidence. The claim that he “celebrated the 10/7 massacre” appears to originate from social media posts he made in the aftermath of October 7 that critics interpreted as celebratory. Azaiza has denied celebrating the attack. The characterization requires reading his posts in the most damaging possible light while ignoring 108 days of documented journalistic work under fire.

This is the pattern: take a real person with a documented record, isolate the most ambiguous moments, reframe them as confirmation of the worst possible interpretation, and deploy the label. The label does the work after that.

The DOJ letter

In April 2025, StopAntisemitism sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether Ms. Rachel was operating as a “foreign agent,” meaning that she was spreading propaganda for a foreign entity. The Guardian, The Hill, and NewsNation all reported the letter.

The evidence StopAntisemitism offered: she posted photos of starving children and raised money for a humanitarian fund.

No evidence of foreign payment was offered. No financial records. No communications with a foreign government. No contract. No admission. The letter said: “Given the vast sums of foreign funds that have been directed toward propagandizing our young people on college campuses, we suspect there is a similar operation at play.”

Suspect. Not evidence. Suspect.

The pattern is reality preemption: the accusation itself is presented as the evidence. No investigation has been announced. The letter’s purpose was not to trigger an investigation. It was to generate headlines that say “DOJ asked to investigate Ms. Rachel.” The headline does the work. The retraction, if it ever comes, arrives too late to matter.

The Instagram like

In January 2026, someone commented “Free America from the Jews” on Ms. Rachel’s Instagram post. Her account liked the comment. Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, and Newsweek all reported the story.

Ms. Rachel said it was accidental. She said she deleted the like when she saw it. She posted an emotional apology video. “I would never agree with an antisemitic thing like the comment,” she said, crying. “We have Jewish family. A lot of my friends are Jewish. I delete antisemitic comments.”

The original post was about Sudan and Congo: “Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo, Free Iran.” The antisemitic comment was left by someone else. The like was on a post about humanitarian crises in multiple countries.

StopAntisemitism amplified the screenshots. The context got stripped out. The story became: Ms. Rachel likes antisemitic comments. The specific accusation, an accidental like that was deleted and apologized for on a post about Sudan, was buried under the general.

This is testimony dilution. The specific accusation is met with the general label. The harm is never addressed because the response never names the specifics that would complicate the narrative.

Who is suing StopAntisemitism?

In March 2026, CAIR-Chicago filed a class action lawsuit against StopAntisemitism and Canary Mission, another blacklist organization, for doxxing and defamation. The suit was filed in Illinois state court and names groups and individuals identified as funders or board members.

Separately, The Intercept reported that a former music teacher in Oregon is suing StopAntisemitism in federal court for defamation and business interference after the group’s profiling led to her firing. A physician and former Emory University School of Medicine professor has also sued. Mother Jones documented the broader legal threat these blacklist organizations pose to pro-Palestinian activists, students, and academics.

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice published a statement defending Ms. Rachel and describing StopAntisemitism’s tactics: “Instead of combating antisemitism, the group cheapens the word through its indiscriminate use against anyone who criticizes the actions of the State of Israel or simply express sympathy for and solidarity with Palestinians.”

The pattern

The word “antisemite” is being deployed against anyone who advocates for Palestinian lives. It used to mean something specific: hatred of Jewish people. Now, in the hands of StopAntisemitism and groups like it, it means: spoke about Gaza. Posted a photo of a starving child. Raised money for a humanitarian fund. Met a photojournalist who documented bombardment.

When the word covers everything, it protects nothing. A label that can be applied to a children’s educator for posting photos of amputee toddlers is a label that has lost its diagnostic value. That is not a failure of the label. It is the design.

The pattern is label weaponization. The word arrives pre-verified. No one asks what evidence would make the advocacy not-antisemitic. No one asks who benefits from making the word meaningless. The label does the work. The target is forced to defend against a charge that has no evidentiary standard. The defense is always insufficient because the charge was never about evidence. It was about silencing.

StopAntisemitism profiled 1,000 people. Got 400 fired. Named a children’s educator “Antisemite of the Year.” Asked the DOJ to investigate a woman who raises money for starving children as a foreign agent.

The word used to mean something. They made it mean something else. That is the propaganda.

What we know, and what we do not

We know that Ms. Rachel posted about children in Gaza, raised money for humanitarian aid, and met with a Palestinian child who lost her legs. We know StopAntisemitism named her a finalist for “Antisemite of the Year,” asked the DOJ to investigate her as a foreign agent, and amplified screenshots of an accidental Instagram like. We know the group is funded by Adam Milstein’s foundation, claims to have gotten 400 people fired, and is facing a class action lawsuit and individual federal lawsuits for doxxing and defamation. We know Motaz Azaiza is a TIME 100 photojournalist, not a terrorist, and that calling him one is a choice that outruns the evidence.

We do not know whether the DOJ opened an investigation. We do not know whether Ms. Rachel’s like was truly accidental. She says it was, and no evidence contradicts her. We do not know whether StopAntisemitism’s funding extends beyond the Milstein foundation. We do not know how many of the 400 people the group claims to have gotten fired were actually fired because of the group’s actions.

The difference between those two lists is the difference between reporting and propaganda. The facts are already serious enough. They do not need embellishment. They need to be named.

The word “antisemite” is being weaponized. That is the fact. The design is the pattern. The pattern is the story.