Ms Rachel calls Gaza journalist ‘friend’ in resurfaced clip after he admits hiding Oct 7 hostage footage
M is for Motaz. He filmed the beating. He hid the tape so Israel could not find the crowd.
Summary
- Fox News reports a resurfaced 2025 video shows children's YouTuber Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel, introducing Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza to young viewers while teaching the letter M: Hi, yes, it's M, for my friend, Motaz. The Instagram clip was later removed, according to July 2025 reporting.
- Azaiza told journalist Ahmed al-Biqawi on the Arabic Taqarrab podcast that on Oct. 7, 2023, he followed an Al-Qassam Brigades vehicle carrying Israeli captives, filmed as a crowd beat them, and did not publish the video because he did not want to ruin the lives of the people who were filmed.
- Azaiza said he understood Israel would use the videos to identify every person there and eliminate them, and he did not want to be responsible even indirectly for those deaths in exchange for likes. Time named him to its 2024 list of the world's 100 most influential people. He also said he supports armed resistance but criticized Hamas for failing Gazans.
- Rabbi Yaakov Menken of the Coalition for Jewish Values told Fox Azaiza hid footage not to protect victims but so Israel would not arrest perpetrators. California GOP Jewish engagement chair Elizabeth Barcohana said Accurso is sanitizing terrorism with false and misleading information for an impressionable following. Accurso last week accused silent celebrities of a racial double standard on Palestinian children. Fox reached Accurso and did not immediately get a response.
Commentary
A night-shift dad still sits a toddler in front of a letter song and knows a kids' show is supposed to mean a friend who does not hide a beating. He did not pay the levy so the letter M could sit on a man who buried Oct. 7 tape.
M for Motaz. Al-Qassam vehicle. Crowd beating captives. Tape withheld. Time 100. The vinyl chair in that living room still remembers the letter song. The honest household already bought the overtime for a show that was supposed to stay a show.
Look every working father who still clicks play after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if the tape already showed the beating, who still owns the next kids' letter a celebrity desk tries to hang on a hidden file?
Comments
M for Motaz. Qassam vehicle. Tape withheld. Keep the three.
I stood a gate so a hostage beating still meant a hold. A kids' intro is not a weather report.
Azaiza: hide them from Israel. Menken: not journalistic protection. Print both.
Allied living rooms still treat Oct. 7 tape as evidence, not a friendship stamp.
Time 100. Instagram clip removed. File the pair.
I still click a letter song at 2 a.m. I want the next friend to have a clean file.
A hidden beating tape is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A kids' show hung on a Qassam file is a second border around every honest couch.
Fox printed the M line, the withheld tape, and Menken. Argue those nouns.
Name the tape. Keep the kids' show clean. A hidden beating is not a souvenir.
