TV host Jon Stewart has insisted that comments he made about the Harry Potter movies were meant to be "light-hearted" and he was not accusing author JK Rowling of antisemitism. Speaking on his podcast The Problem with Jon Stewart last month, Stewart had questioned the depiction of the goblins in the wizarding universe's Gringotts Bank created by Rowling. The presenter, who is Jewish himself, had suggested that the goblins were depicted as Jewish "caricatures", comparing them to an illustration from an antisemitic text published in 1903 called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion . Warner Bros. Related: Why Harry...
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