A December 2021 episode of Jon Stewart's "The Problem with Jon Stewart" podcast is making headlines for the host's takedown of J.K. Rowling and the depiction of goblins in the author's Harry Potter franchise.
In the Harry Potter universe, goblins work at and run the Gringotts Bank. Stewart drew a comparison between the goblins depicted on screen in the Harry Potter films and the anti-Semitic illustrations featured in the 1903 book The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion.
"Here's how you know Jews are still where they are," Stewart said on the podcast episode. "Talking to people, here's what I say: Have you ever seen a Harry Potter movie? Have you ever seen the scenes in Gringotts Bank? Do you know what those folks who run the bank are? Jews! And they're like, 'Oh, (that illustration is) 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?' It's a wizarding world...we can ride dragons, you can have a pet owl... but who should run the bank? Jews. But what if the teeth were sharper?"
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