Kat Von Dis speaking out.

In an 11-minute video posted to her YouTube channel on Thursday, the celebrity tattoo artist addressed speculation that she is anti-Semitic oragainst vaccinations.

“As a lot of you know, I have been getting a ton of hate over two different controversial topics, both of which are pretty hard for me to talk about but I just really want to try my best to clear the air,” Von D, 37, began.

“Just to set the record straight from the beginning, I just want to say that I am not anti-Semitic and I am not an anti-vaxxer,” she continued.

“Out of every comment I’ve gotten, the ones that are calling me and family Nazis — those are the ones that really just don’t sit well for me,” she said. “If anything, they’re extremely offensive and super hurtful.”

“Overnight, I was just falsely branded as an anti-Semite and I had no idea how to handle it or what to do,” she shared.

A rep for TLC did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.

The “forged message” is not the only time Von D has been accused of alleged anti-Semitism: herex Jesse Jameswas linked to Nazism. In 2010,a photo surfacedof James in a Nazi hat, giving a salute and holding two fingers under his nose. Then, in 2011,more photos were discovered, including one of James smiling next to a friend who is giving a Nazi salute.

James did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment about the photos, but his lawyer toldCNNin 2010 that James is not a neo-Nazi, claiming that the hat was a gag gift from his Jewish godfather and that James once spent nearly a month in an Israeli kibbutz.

In 2015, Von D had planned to release a shade of lipstickcalled Selektion, whichABC Newsreported refers to the Nazi “death camp practice of ‘selecting’ those to be executed.”

In the video, Von D also addressed the criticism she received after she wrote on Instagram that she was going to raise her son Leafar Von D Reyes,now 3 months, without vaccines.

“Since then, we have decided as parents to consult with our pediatrician and just let him educate us and guide us,” she revealed. “But, unlike before, I have learned my lesson and I am choosing not to make our decision public.”

“As a soon-to-be parent [and especially as a first-time mom] I do feel it my responsibility to have questions, and to listen to my motherly instinct to question things, and do my research,” she continued.

At the end of Thursday’s video, Von D read a message that she had written to those who “sent so much hate my way.”

“I’m not mad at you — I actually totally understand where you were coming from,” she said. “I just don’t think that sending hate to anyone is the right way to go about anything… you’re more likely to open someone’s mind with kindness instead of attacking them.”

source: people.com