EXCLUSIVE: Exclusive: Rep. Randy Fine warns parents about Ms. Rachel: ‘There is evil in this world and we need to get it off our screens’

Rep. Randy Fine (R., Fla.) is warning parents about popular children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel over her controversial activism surrounding Israel and immigration enforcement, telling the Washington Reporter that parents should reconsider allowing their children to watch her programming.

“Parents need to know that [this individual] is performing for their children,” Fine told the Washington Reporter in an exclusive statement. “There is evil in this world and we need to get it off our screens.”

Fine’s comments come as Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, has increasingly mixed her role as one of the country’s most prominent children’s entertainers with political activism surrounding Gaza and immigration.

Ms. Rachel has faced sustained criticism from pro-Israel groups over her Gaza advocacy. StopAntisemitism, a pro-Israel advocacy group, called on Attorney General Pam Bondi last year to investigate whether Ms. Rachel was receiving foreign support to promote what the group described as “Hamas propaganda.” 

The controversy intensified in January when Ms. Rachel’s Instagram account liked a comment reading, “Free America from the Jews.”

Ms. Rachel apologized and said the like was accidental. “I would never agree with an antisemitic thing like the comment,” she said, adding that she had intended to delete it.

Ms. Rachel has also moved into the immigration debate.

Earlier this year, she visited the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, the country’s only operating ICE detention facility specifically for families, and subsequently traveled to Capitol Hill to press lawmakers to end family immigration detention.

More than 110 House Democrats have similarly called on the Trump administration to close Dilley and end family detention.

Ms. Rachel’s political activity has also extended into this year’s elections. Federal Election Commission records show she donated $3,000 to Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on July 19. The contribution was reported by the Washington Reporter.

El-Sayed has faced his own controversy over Israel. He has called for ending U.S. military aid to Israel and accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. He has also campaigned with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who previously said “Hamas is a thousand times better” than Israel and has faced renewed criticism over comments about American Jews.

El-Sayed sought to distance himself this week from Piker’s latest remarks, saying “antisemitism is a scourge” and that “nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.”