Ms Rachel confronted on accusing Israel of 'genocide' in park interaction with podcaster

Podcaster Avi Lichtschein confronted popular children's educator Ms.

Rachel about her anti-Israel comments during an interaction at a neighborhood park, according to the Sunday episode of his show, "Depends on the Context." During the episode , Lichtschein described running into the YouTuber, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, while they were both taking their children to the park.

After meeting her, he asked her why she was anti-Israel.

Accurso reportedly told him that she was not anti-Israel, but anti-Israeli government and anti-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"I pushed back on this, and I said, 'That's absurd,'" Lichtschein said.

"Saying you're anti-Netanyahu, but you're not anti-Israel ? Netanyahu is the democratically elected leader of the sovereign nation.

I think what [she does] is way beyond that." YOUTUBE STAR MS RACHEL GIVES FUNDS TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MICHIGAN SENATE HOPEFUL ABDUL EL-SAYED Lichtschein said that Accurso also accused Israel of committing a "genocide" through its war with Hamas.

"She said something along the lines of, 'Twenty thousand children have died.

How is that not a genocide?'" Lichtschein said.

"The answer is — and this is what I was trying to convey to her — genocide is not just a word for, like, a war.

War is terrible.

Again, Hamas started this war.

Genocide is the specific accusation that [she's] hurling at the Jewish people, hurling at the state of Israel , and now it gives carte blanche to go open season on Jews literally around the world." Lichtschein added that Accurso repeatedly said that her "husband's father is Jewish" and that she supports the existence of a Jewish state.

He informed her that she was "spreading blood libel" and that there was "blood on your hands" for her ignorance before she ultimately walked away.