Jon Stewart Slams J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Semitic Goblins in Harry Potter

While “Harry Potter” fans spent the holiday break celebrating the 20th anniversary reunion special that debuted on HBO Max on New Year’s Day, Jon Stewart singled out a problem with the franchise that’s hard to unhear.

The December episode of “The Problem With Jon Stewart” podcastThese episodes have been growing in popularity over the last few weeks, with Stewart calling out an episode. “anti-Semitic”The goblins that run Gringotts banks are depicted as Jews in the franchise

“Here’s how you know Jews are still where they are,” Stewart began. “Talking to people I say, ‘Have you ever seen a ‘Harry Potter’ movie?’ and people are all like, ‘Oh I love the ‘Harry Potter’ movies!’ and I’m like, ‘Have you ever seen the scenes in Gringotts bank?’ and they’re like, ‘Oh I love Gringotts Bank’ and I’m like, ‘Do you know what those folks who run the bank are?’ and they’re like, ‘What?’ and I’m like, ‘Jews.’”

Stewart went on to say that Stewart compared the depiction of the goblins with Jewish caricatures. “Let me show you this from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, I just want to show you a caricature and they’re like, ‘Oh look at that, that’s from ‘Harry Potter’’ and you’re like, ‘No, that’s a caricature of a Jew from an anti-Semitic piece of literature.’ J.K. Rowling was like, ‘Can we get these guys to run our bank?’ and you’re like, it’s a wizarding world. It’s a world where the train station has a half a thing and no one can see it and we can ride dragons and you’ve gotta pet owls. Who’s gonna run the bank? Jews?”

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Stewart added: “They look like Jews but what if the teeth were sharper?”

The former “Daily Show”The host explained to the audience that he was immediately aware of the problem portrayal upon first viewing. “Harry Potter”Film in theaters. But he felt like he was in horror movie, when no one else did.

“It reminded me of those horror movies where everyone’s been taken over by the thing but you haven’t so you’re looking around and every time someone sees you they go, ‘Ah!’ It was one of those things where I saw it on the screen and I was expecting the crowd to be like, ‘Holy sh–, she did not in a wizarding world just throw Jews in there to run the f—king underground bank,’ and everybody was just like, ‘Wizards!’”

Stewart’s observation concluded with, “Even Dobby was like, ‘That’s f—ked up.’”

Check out Stewart’s full observations in the video As mentioned above.

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