{"id":1193765,"date":"2022-01-06T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193765"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:34:41","slug":"jon-stewart-walks-back-antisemitism-accusations-against-harry-potter-and-j-k-rowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jon-stewart-walks-back-antisemitism-accusations-against-harry-potter-and-j-k-rowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Walks Back Antisemitism Accusations Against &#039;Harry Potter&#039; and J.K. Rowling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjon-stewart-walks-back-antisemitism-accusations-against-harry-potter-and-j-k-rowling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193765&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HBOJonStewartScrapped.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Jon Stewart has walked back his claims that the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> books and movies are antisemitic following intense social media blowback.<\/p>\n<p>He said his comments were meant to be light-hearted and were taken out of context. \u201cNewsweek et al, may eat my ass,\u201d Stewart tweeted, referring to the news outlets that covered his earlier comments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the latest installment of his podcast, Jon Stewart attempted to set the record straight and perhaps allay the concerns of his lawyers, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not think J.K. Rowling is antisemitic. I did not accuse her of being antisemitic. I do not think the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> movies are antisemitic. I really love the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> movies, probably too much for a gentleman of my considerable age,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Newsweek et al, may eat my ass. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eRoYYeNRi1\">pic.twitter.com\/eRoYYeNRi1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonstewart\/status\/1478791577573199875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stewart said any \u201creasonable\u201d person would have understood his comments were meant to be light-hearted.<\/p>\n<p>The former <em>Daily Show<\/em> host saved his harshest words for Newsweek. \u201cYour business model is fucking arson, and not the good kind, where they light stuff and control it to prevent forest fires in the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/05\/jon-stewart-trashes-harry-potter-as-anti-semitic-claims-goblins-represent-jews\/\">reported<\/a>, Stewart claimed in an older podcast episode that the&nbsp;goblin characters in <em>Harry Potter<\/em> who run the fictional Gringotts Wizarding Bank are actually caricatures of Jews, comparing them to the imagery found in the&nbsp;antisemitic book <em>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to show you a caricature,\u201d Stewart said, referring to the <em>Zion<\/em> book. \u201cAnd they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, look at that, that\u2019s from <em>Harry Potter<\/em>!\u2019 And you\u2019re like, \u2018No, that\u2019s a caricature of a Jew from an antisemitic piece of literature.\u2019 J.K. Rowling was like, \u2018Can we get these guys to run our bank?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the episode, he said:&nbsp;\u201cIt was one of those things where I saw it on the screen and I was expecting the crowd to be like, \u2018Holy shit, she [Rowling] did not, in a wizarding world, just throw Jews in there to run the fucking underground bank.\u2019 And everybody was just like, \u2018Wizards!\u2019 It was so weird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonstewart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jonstewart<\/a> recently broke Hollywood&#8217;s complete silence on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jk_rowling<\/a> unapologetically maintaining antisemitic folklore through Harry Potter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ezWrxpzryB\">pic.twitter.com\/ezWrxpzryB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 raf (@rafaelshimunov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rafaelshimunov\/status\/1477808811473838081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart has walked back his claims that the Harry Potter books and movies are antisemitic following intense social media blowback. 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