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The UK\u2019s Royal Mint rejected plans to mark the centenary of the birth of hugely popular children\u2019s author Roald Dahl over his anti-Semitic views, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n
The minutes from a Royal Mint committee meeting held in 2014, obtained by The Guardian<\/a> via a freedom of information request, showed that the proposal to issue a commemorative coin were axed as Dahl was \u201cassociated with antisemitism and not regarded as an author of the highest reputation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Twitter cheers as Roald Dahl\u2019s Matilda faces off against Trump (PHOTOS)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Beatrix Potter, herself an author of children\u2019s literature among other work, and master playwright and poet William Shakespeare were chosen for commemorative coins instead.<\/p>\n In 2012, the Royal Mail honored Dahl with a series of commemorative stamps<\/a> celebrating his books including Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox, the BFG and the world-famous Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, all of which have been made into film adaptations.<\/p>\n Dahl\u2019s anti-Semitism is often overlooked during commemorative events despite how open he was about his beliefs.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it\u2019s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there\u2019s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn\u2019t just pick on them for no reason,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Dahl told The\u00a0New Statesman<\/a>\u00a0in 1983.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Beer made with yeast from Roald Dahl\u2019s chair & belongings to be served up at \u2018Dinner with the Twits\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n He openly declared his anti-Semitism in a 1990 interview with the Independent<\/a>. After stating that he felt the \u201cprimarily Jewish-owned\u201d<\/em> media had hushed up the some 20,000 civilian casualties during the Israeli bombing of Beirut, Dahl then doubled down on his beliefs.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m certainly anti-Israeli and I\u2019ve become antisemitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism,\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Roald Dahl Company has not responded to media requests for comment.<\/p>\n Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UK\u2019s Royal Mint rejected plans to mark the centenary of the birth of hugely popular children\u2019s author Roald Dahl over his anti-Semitic views, it has been revealed. The minutes from a Royal Mint committee meeting held in 2014, obtained by The Guardian via a freedom of information request, showed that the proposal to issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}