Samer Kalaf
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
I think it's specifically because she started to advocate for Palestinian children. Because if you look at her recent posts, she has advocated for children all across the globe. She's advocated for the famine in Sudan. She's pointed her audience to foundations there. But I think specifically because... She recognizes the scale of what's happening in Gaza.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
Groups like Stop Anti-Semitism are starting to go after her. They think it's like a matter of proportion, I guess.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
Which I totally disagree with.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
Mona has a point there because also in some of these videos, Miss Rachel is carrying her own baby as she talks about what's happening to children in Gaza.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
Yeah, not only is she a children's entertainer, but she's also a parent, and she just sees that as such a level of basic humanity that it's hard for her to look away from that.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
I actually was a PBS kid when I was growing up. Okay. And I watched a lot of Arthur.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
I think you're seeing this because it's a distinctly Palestinian issue. I think it's going to be different than when you're talking about saving the children anywhere else, kind of similar to student protests across the country.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
I think people are fine when you advocate for peace, but then when you advocate for the end to the suffering for Palestinian people in Gaza, it becomes a whole different kind of can of worms for them.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
His whole campaign of reading more, it really affected me. I was in the library all the time because of him.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
The movement is now more emboldened to go after figures who were considered non-controversial like Ms. Rachel. I can't see where it goes from here.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
I mean, it was totally ridiculous of the New York Times to even bring that up to her, in my opinion. The allegation that she was being funded by Hamas was kind of started by Leora Rez, who is the founder of that group Stop Antisemitism. And she was the one who sent the letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking for the Department of Justice to investigate Ms. Rachel.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
But the author of that piece in the Times, Mark Tracy, floated this idea accusation for Miss Rachel to deny. But the thing is, if he had done a little more work into seeing how it came about, it wouldn't have been worth even approaching her about it.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
Yeah, I mean, I feel like this has been kind of the standard for a while, but now these kinds of organizations are kind of emboldened by the fact that nobody is really pushing back against these kind of campaigns. And until you see people pushing back on it, they're going to continue to see it as a successful tactic.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
I mean, I think it goes back to it being about Palestinians, honestly. I think that... We've seen that different things that we used to think of in the past as non-controversial or objective across the world suddenly face more pushback and backlash when it has to do with Palestinians.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
Like speaking out for children, it's fine to speak out for children in other places, but when you start speaking out for children in Gaza, you're going to face more pushback, basically.
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Why can't we (or Ms. Rachel) talk about Gaza's children dying?
Yeah, I think I agree with Mona because... The movement is now more emboldened to go after figures who were considered non-controversial like Miss Rachel. I can't see where it goes from here.