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Wait a bit…
If reading #MichaelRosen’s poem, “Don’t Mention the Children”, is terrorism, and the poem tells us NOT to mention the children #Israel has killed, then perhaps reading the names of the thousands of children that Israel has killed would be the opposite of terrorism. An act of civic and humanitarian duty.
No?
Would that not be acceptable?
Oh, then perhaps neither mentioning or NOT mentioning the fact that Israel has deliberately* killed (murdered) thousands of #Palestinian children is the real terrorism, and we can all expect to be arrested at any time. (And they say the UK is a free society…)
* Source for the claim that Israel is murdering children: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/06/israel-continues-commit-genocide-and-other-atrocity-crimes-deliberately
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Wait a bit…
If reading #MichaelRosen’s poem, “Don’t Mention the Children”, is terrorism, and the poem tells us NOT to mention the children #Israel has killed, then perhaps reading the names of the thousands of children that Israel has killed would be the opposite of terrorism. An act of civic and humanitarian duty.
No?
Would that not be acceptable?
Oh, then perhaps neither mentioning or NOT mentioning the fact that Israel has deliberately* killed (murdered) thousands of #Palestinian children is the real terrorism, and we can all expect to be arrested at any time. (And they say the UK is a free society…)
* Source for the claim that Israel is murdering children: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/06/israel-continues-commit-genocide-and-other-atrocity-crimes-deliberately
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What Benjamin Zephaniah taught me | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/what-benjamin-zephaniah-taught-me
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What Benjamin Zephaniah taught me | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/what-benjamin-zephaniah-taught-me
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This is worth a watch
#DoubleDownNews | "They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew” Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen & Alexei Sayle DON’T HOLD BACK
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=URpIy_pWthk
#AlexeiSayle #MiriamMargolyes #MichaelRosen #AntiZionism #WrongKindOfJew #Gaza #Palestine
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This is worth a watch
#DoubleDownNews | "They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew” Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen & Alexei Sayle DON’T HOLD BACK
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=URpIy_pWthk
#AlexeiSayle #MiriamMargolyes #MichaelRosen #AntiZionism #WrongKindOfJew #Gaza #Palestine
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Well worth watching if you have just over an hour that isn't dedicated to someone's immediate survival.
#MiriamMargolyes #MichaelRosen #AlexeiSayle #Gaza #Palestine #genocide
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The Wrong Kind of Jew: Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen & Alexei Sayle - Double Down News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpIy_pWthk
#PalestineSolidarity #MiriamMargolyes #MichaelRosen #UKpol #AlexeiSayle #antisemitism #jew #jewish #UKhistory #WW2 #JewsForPalestine #history #holocaust #communism #communist
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The Wrong Kind of Jew: Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen & Alexei Sayle - Double Down News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpIy_pWthk
#PalestineSolidarity #MiriamMargolyes #MichaelRosen #UKpol #AlexeiSayle #antisemitism #jew #jewish #UKhistory #WW2 #JewsForPalestine #history #holocaust #communism #communist
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British Author Michael Rosen and Chinese Illustrator Cai Gao Win the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
Presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), the announcement was made on April 13 at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. By Claude Combet n Monday, April 13 British author Michael Rosen and Chinese illustrator Cai Gao won the Hans Christian Andersen Awards, presented every two years by IBBY (International Board on Books for...
The post British Author Michael Rosen and Chinese Illustrator Cai Gao Win the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/british-author-michael-rosen-and-chinese-illustrator-cai-gao-win-the-2026-hans-christian-andersen-awards/#BolognaChildrensBookFair #CaiGao #IBBY #MichaelRosen #theHansChristianAndersenAward
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British Author Michael Rosen and Chinese Illustrator Cai Gao Win the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
Presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), the announcement was made on April 13 at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. By Claude Combet n Monday, April 13 British author Michael Rosen and Chinese illustrator Cai Gao won the Hans Christian Andersen Awards, presented every two years by IBBY (International Board on Books for...
The post British Author Michael Rosen and Chinese Illustrator Cai Gao Win the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/british-author-michael-rosen-and-chinese-illustrator-cai-gao-win-the-2026-hans-christian-andersen-awards/#BolognaChildrensBookFair #CaiGao #IBBY #MichaelRosen #theHansChristianAndersenAward
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Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
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Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
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This is #MichaelRosen's post for #Holocaust Memorial Day. Worth reading to the end.
Today I spent an hour and a half in a studio at the BBC, talking to 12 local radio stations, one after the other, about Holocaust Memorial Day. I talked about people in my family (Jews) who were arrested, imprisoned, deported and killed in Auschwitz. I talked about how I got to find out the details of how each of them was trapped as the net closed in round Jews in France (where my father's uncles and aunt lived.) I talked about how the Nazi project was to not only eliminate living Jews but to try to remove them from German history and that my project to 'find' them and write about them, was to not let them disappear from memory, or from being known.
Several themes emerged in the interviewers' questions and the answers I gave - and in my thoughts.
1. The Holocaust was a way of eliminating people. It wasn't a war in the usual sense of the word. It wasn't a fight between two or more combatants. You could say that it was a war on people.
2. The Holocaust was carried out by the Nazis and their collaborators. If we say 'Never again' or anything similar, one of the things we have to do is investigate what it was that the Nazis did, before they came to power and during the time they were in power. This involves facing up to the fact that they were the largest political party when they won power, that they brought in two key acts of parliament (the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act, which mean that a) they had total dictatorial power and b) that they eliminated most of the political opposition through terror, imprisonment and violence). That their 'project' progressed as their rule progressed and as the war progressed. In short from persecution to genocide.
3. Much as we'd like to say that the Nazis were 'beasts' or 'animals', the really distressing and difficult thing to say is that they were human. And not only that, some of them were clever. We have to try to understand what does it mean to be the kind of clever human who can be someone who can organise, run and enact genocide - several genocides.
4. There was a Nazi project. They wrote about it and explained it. They enacted it. It involved on the one hand producing a new kind of human, one that would require them to eliminate elements that they thought prevented this human from becoming its true form. On the other hand, it involved creating an empire by absorbing lands in the east. In order to achieve this twin aim, the Nazis had 'get rid' of people. Millions and millions of people.
5. If we say 'never again', it is possible to say, this means 'never again for Jews' or 'Jews must never again be targeted in that way'. It is also possible to see 'Never again' as a hope or wish that there should never again be that kind of genocide for anyone. I'm of this second school of thought, which is all well and good, but since 1945, when that aspiration surfaced there have been acts of genocide. One of the reasons we can and should say it's about all of humanity and not only Jews is that the Nazi project involved killing millions of people who were eg Poles (ie non-Jewish Poles), Roma and Sinti people, Russians, gays, mentally ill and physically disabled people, Afro-Germans, and even people who refused to swear an oath of loyalty such as Jehova's Witnesses, and thousands of civilian oppositionists - socialists, Communists, trade unionists, in camps like Dachau and Sachsenhausen.
6. For those that say, there have been many other terrible acts of genocide down through history, shouldn't we commemorate them? I say yes. I wish there were other Days when we mark the transatlantic slave trade and plantation slavery, or the Bengal Famine or Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainians, or the Famine in Ireland etc. There should not be any kind of league table. Each of these terrible moments of mass suffering should be moments we dwell on, investigate and learn from. How did they happen? Why did they happen? I guess I think, it'll be hard to progress unless we do investigate and understand these things. -
This is #MichaelRosen's post for #Holocaust Memorial Day. Worth reading to the end.
Today I spent an hour and a half in a studio at the BBC, talking to 12 local radio stations, one after the other, about Holocaust Memorial Day. I talked about people in my family (Jews) who were arrested, imprisoned, deported and killed in Auschwitz. I talked about how I got to find out the details of how each of them was trapped as the net closed in round Jews in France (where my father's uncles and aunt lived.) I talked about how the Nazi project was to not only eliminate living Jews but to try to remove them from German history and that my project to 'find' them and write about them, was to not let them disappear from memory, or from being known.
Several themes emerged in the interviewers' questions and the answers I gave - and in my thoughts.
1. The Holocaust was a way of eliminating people. It wasn't a war in the usual sense of the word. It wasn't a fight between two or more combatants. You could say that it was a war on people.
2. The Holocaust was carried out by the Nazis and their collaborators. If we say 'Never again' or anything similar, one of the things we have to do is investigate what it was that the Nazis did, before they came to power and during the time they were in power. This involves facing up to the fact that they were the largest political party when they won power, that they brought in two key acts of parliament (the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act, which mean that a) they had total dictatorial power and b) that they eliminated most of the political opposition through terror, imprisonment and violence). That their 'project' progressed as their rule progressed and as the war progressed. In short from persecution to genocide.
3. Much as we'd like to say that the Nazis were 'beasts' or 'animals', the really distressing and difficult thing to say is that they were human. And not only that, some of them were clever. We have to try to understand what does it mean to be the kind of clever human who can be someone who can organise, run and enact genocide - several genocides.
4. There was a Nazi project. They wrote about it and explained it. They enacted it. It involved on the one hand producing a new kind of human, one that would require them to eliminate elements that they thought prevented this human from becoming its true form. On the other hand, it involved creating an empire by absorbing lands in the east. In order to achieve this twin aim, the Nazis had 'get rid' of people. Millions and millions of people.
5. If we say 'never again', it is possible to say, this means 'never again for Jews' or 'Jews must never again be targeted in that way'. It is also possible to see 'Never again' as a hope or wish that there should never again be that kind of genocide for anyone. I'm of this second school of thought, which is all well and good, but since 1945, when that aspiration surfaced there have been acts of genocide. One of the reasons we can and should say it's about all of humanity and not only Jews is that the Nazi project involved killing millions of people who were eg Poles (ie non-Jewish Poles), Roma and Sinti people, Russians, gays, mentally ill and physically disabled people, Afro-Germans, and even people who refused to swear an oath of loyalty such as Jehova's Witnesses, and thousands of civilian oppositionists - socialists, Communists, trade unionists, in camps like Dachau and Sachsenhausen.
6. For those that say, there have been many other terrible acts of genocide down through history, shouldn't we commemorate them? I say yes. I wish there were other Days when we mark the transatlantic slave trade and plantation slavery, or the Bengal Famine or Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainians, or the Famine in Ireland etc. There should not be any kind of league table. Each of these terrible moments of mass suffering should be moments we dwell on, investigate and learn from. How did they happen? Why did they happen? I guess I think, it'll be hard to progress unless we do investigate and understand these things. -
"...claim that the Labour Party was riven with antisemitism: ‘If people are combatting antisemitism only in the #Labour Party and not in the #Tory Party, they’re not combatting #antisemitism, they’re combatting the Labour Party’." — #MichaelRosen
Read in full here: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/19/anti-semitism-rosen/
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‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/13/this-extraordinary-story-never-goes-out-of-fashion-30-authors-on-the-books-they-give-to-everyone #Scienceandnaturebooks #Childrenandteenagers #JeanetteWinterson #RobertMacfarlane #KatherineRundell #KamilaShamsie #MichaelRosen #NikeshShukla #TessaHadley #WilliamBoyd #JonathanCoe #ElifShafak #ColmTóibín #DianaEvans #NinaStibbe #Christmas #MaxPorter
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‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/13/this-extraordinary-story-never-goes-out-of-fashion-30-authors-on-the-books-they-give-to-everyone #Scienceandnaturebooks #Childrenandteenagers #JeanetteWinterson #RobertMacfarlane #KatherineRundell #KamilaShamsie #MichaelRosen #NikeshShukla #TessaHadley #WilliamBoyd #JonathanCoe #ElifShafak #ColmTóibín #DianaEvans #NinaStibbe #Christmas #MaxPorter
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Michael Rosen makes a really good point. It’s almost as if poets have an understanding of the nuances of language #MichaelRosen #StopAntisemitism #Maccabi_TelAviv #Football #FootballHooligan
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"The impetus is on organisations, probably businesses and charities."
"It's not about what individuals think. It’s about what organisations do."• When people try to change the British political landscape, they make demands of boycott on British cultural institutions: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/13/pressure-on-british-museum-to-ditch-bp
• When people try to change the German political landscape, they make demands of boycott on German cultural institutions: https://en.hespress.com/78244-cultural-figures-intellectuals-call-for-germany-boycott-over-palestine.html
• When people try to change the Israeli political landscape, they make demands of boycott on Israeli cultural institutions: https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/Francesca Newton: https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/ @academicchatter
#freeSpeech #NaomiKlein #JacquelineRose #MiriamMargolyes #MichaelRosen #culturalBoycott #israelBoycott #antiZionism #faculty #academia #academic #universities #CulturalBoycott #academicChatter #israel #israelGazaWar #higherEd #education #academicFreedom #democracy #dissent #ashlaa #torture #university #academics #ShalhoubKevorkian #theocracy #JewishState #campus #campuses
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"The impetus is on organisations, probably businesses and charities."
"It's not about what individuals think. It’s about what organisations do."• When people try to change the British political landscape, they make demands of boycott on British cultural institutions: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/13/pressure-on-british-museum-to-ditch-bp
• When people try to change the German political landscape, they make demands of boycott on German cultural institutions: https://en.hespress.com/78244-cultural-figures-intellectuals-call-for-germany-boycott-over-palestine.html
• When people try to change the Israeli political landscape, they make demands of boycott on Israeli cultural institutions: https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/Francesca Newton: https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/ @academicchatter
#freeSpeech #NaomiKlein #JacquelineRose #MiriamMargolyes #MichaelRosen #culturalBoycott #israelBoycott #antiZionism #faculty #academia #academic #universities #CulturalBoycott #academicChatter #israel #israelGazaWar #higherEd #education #academicFreedom #democracy #dissent #ashlaa #torture #university #academics #ShalhoubKevorkian #theocracy #JewishState #campus #campuses
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@girlonthenet don’t know if you’ve ever seen this? Michael Rosen talking about grief and the poems of Raymond Carver. Has me in tears every time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p07cvfth/michael-rosen-how-poetry-helped-me-to-grieve-
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Five of the best books about grief https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/22/five-of-the-best-books-about-grief #Deathanddying #MichaelRosen #CariadLloyd #MaxPorter #Culture #Books
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Five of the best books about grief https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/22/five-of-the-best-books-about-grief #Deathanddying #MichaelRosen #CariadLloyd #MaxPorter #Culture #Books
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CW: Michael Rosen on surviving covid & our callous government
"I don’t like my Covid inheritance: my mostly blind left eye and mostly deaf left ear. But then I remember that thanks to people who acted in ways diametrically opposed to this government’s necrophilia, I got to play again. They worked like crazy to make sure I didn’t die - and of course not just me, tens of thousands of us."
#poetry #MichaelRosen #covid #CovidInquiry #Johnson #Sunak #NHS
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In these troubled times we all get the ‘bothers’ but I have a surefire cure: write them down
Michael Rosen
The sentence was created to make sense of the world, but some things are beyond logic. Forget what you learned at school, let the words out
Treat yourself. Instead of reading the rest of this article, first go and write down something that’s bothering you … -
In these troubled times we all get the ‘bothers’ but I have a surefire cure: write them down
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/the-bothers-cure-write-sentence-school-michael-rosen?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Huge congratulations to
#MichaelRosen on winning for what judges called a “fearless” body of work that provides a “lesson in humanity."
Michael does so much to inspire children, as well as campaigning on #Covid and education - and being an absolute mensch 👏👏👏
#Literature #ChildrensBooksps - Just realised this article is over a month old, but hopefully he won't mind the belated congratulations.
