{"id":80499,"date":"2025-12-24T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:56:13","slug":"controversial-youtube-star-ms-rachel-named-to-zohran-mamdanis-inaugural-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80499\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial YouTube star Ms. Rachel named to Zohran Mamdani’s ‘inaugural committee’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s newly announced inaugural committee is already raising eyebrows \u2014 giving controversial children\u2019s YouTuber Ms. Rachel<\/a> a place on the team.<\/p>\n

Mamdani on Wednesday named dozens of supporters to the committee \u2014 including actress and activist Cynthia Nixon of \u201cSex and the City\u201d<\/a> fame \u2014 \u00a0who are advising his transition team on\u00a0his Jan. 1 inauguration party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m honored to be joined by some of the most creative and experienced minds in the city as we build an inauguration that is truly by and for New Yorkers,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"IllustrationMayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s inaugural committee is raising more eyebrows \u2014 giving controversial children\u2019s podcaster Ms. Rachel a place on his team. YouTube\/@msrachel<\/p>\n

\"NewMamdani will officially take office as NYC\u2019s next mayor on Jan. 1, 2026. Stephen Yang for the NY Post<\/p>\n

But the inclusion of the\u00a0toddler whisperer, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso,\u00a0didn\u2019t sit well with everyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Rachel? She brings false charges against Jews. She smears Jews,\u201d\u00a0former CUNY trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also pointed out that the two Jewish groups represented on the inaugural committee\u00a0\u2014 Jewish Voice for Peace and New York Jewish Agenda \u2014 are far-left and anti-Israel, like Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cJews and Christians are in for a rough ride,\u201d\u00a0Wiesenfeld\u00a0said.\u00a0\u201cMamdani is not representing the Jewish community in any way, shape or form. This is not David Dinkins\u2019 \u2018gorgeous mosaic.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Griffin Accurso was accused by a Jewish civil rights watchdog group\u00a0in April of repeatedly\u00a0posting pro-Hamas propaganda<\/a>\u00a0while ignoring the plight of Israeli children affected by the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

StopAntisemitism called on Attorney General Pam Bondi<\/a> to launch an investigation into the comments, which the group maintained amounted to anti-Israeli rhetoric<\/a> \u2013 and inappropriate for a podcaster who reaches millions of children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge you and your office to investigate whether or not Ms. Rachel is being remunerated to disseminate Hamas-aligned propaganda to her millions of followers,\u201d the group\u2019s director, Liora Rez, wrote in a letter to Bondi.<\/p>\n

Rez said Ms. Rachel \u201cconsistently amplifies misinformation from Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The podcaster has defended her comments, saying, \u201cI care deeply for all children, Palestinian children, Israeli children, children in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on the committee are actors Luis Guzman, John Turturro and Kal Penn, along with Broadway star Cole Escola, novelist Min Jin Lee, and internet personality, The Kid Mero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s newly announced inaugural committee is already raising eyebrows \u2014 giving controversial children\u2019s YouTuber Ms. Rachel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[302,39574,57,9,24,11,10,58,4693,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-80499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-city-hall","9":"tag-inauguration","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-youtube","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}