Jon Stewart accuses J.K. Rowling of using "anti-Semitic" tropes with Harry Potter's goblin characters

New York Post

Stewart recently called out Rowling on his The Problem with Jon Stewart podcast, saying that the goblin banker that runs the Gringotts Wizarding Bank resembles an anti-Semitic caricature of the Jewish community, according to the New York Post. He also noted the goblins’ resemblance to characters in the early-1900s anti-Semitic book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, suggesting that readers and filmgoers don’t necessarily know the reference. “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?’ ” Stewart said. He added that in the magical, make-believe world of Harry Potter, people “can ride dragons” and someone can own a “pet owl,” yet he wondered: “Who should run the bank? Jews."