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Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
NYT bestselling Trump biographer. Lawyer. Songwriter. Journalism professor (retired). More: https://t.co/C61aEoBmYZ, https://t.co/j6EVBmIW3k

Jan 6, 2022, 5 tweets

I love Jon Stewart; I love the Harry Potter films; I don't think Rowling is anti-Semitic, or that the Harry Potter movies are anti-Semitic; and I know—as Stewart and every Jew in America knows—that the appearance of these goblin bankers is *1000%* drawn from an anti-Semitic trope

(PS) Believe me, when we Jews get together in our secret enclaves (/s) there is no fuzz on this question whatsoever

(PS2) Yes, *exactly* like the Ferengi, which is also something every Jew knows even as many of us like Star Trek and don't believe it to be anti-Semitic

(PS3) And yes, exactly like the greedy, big-nosed lender Watto in Star Wars, which is also not anti-Semitic (but we all see the trend, yes?)

(PS4) I hate that Jon has to backtrack on something he knows to be true just because some journalist at Newsweek took it in a direction that wasn't what he intended. Anti-Semitic tropes exist and they appear in movies all the time—and they're crafted by folks who don't hate Jews.

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