‘Don’t name the dead children’: powerful new video uses Rosen’s 2015 Gaza poem

Save the Children has published a powerful new video to draw attention to the ongoing horror of Israel’s slaughter of children in Gaza.

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The video, which asks those who see it to sign the charity’s petition for a ban on arms sales to the child-slaughtering occupation, uses the words of Jewish author Michael Rosen, from his poem Don’t Mention the Children – and Rosen features in the video, with each line read by a different, well-known opponent of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians, from Vanessa Redgrave to Guy Pierce, to Annie Lennox, to Juliet Stevenson, to Gaza volunteer doctor Mohammed Mustafa and many more, before closing with a chilling graphic made of the names of some of Israel’s child victims:

The video grossly understates the number of Palestinian children murdered by Israel in Gaza at 20,000. Expert analysis by medics and statisticians of the Israeli military’s own data puts the toll at almost half a million, including 380,000 under the age of five. But 20,000 would be more than horrific enough.

Rosen has been a frequent target of smears by the UK Israel lobby. He wrote his poem in 2015, a decade ago. Israel’s mass murder of children is only new in its industrial scale; Israel’s claim that ‘this all started on 7 October 2023’ is a grotesque lie.

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