Former US talk show host Jon Stewart accuses JK Rowling of anti-Semitism

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former US talk show host Jon Stewart has hit out at JK Rowling for the “anti-Semitic” imagery used in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. “Talking to people, here’s what I say, ‘Have you ever seen a Harry Potter movie? Jews ’ It was one of those things where I saw it on the screen and I was expecting the crowd to be like, ‘Holy s**t, did not, in a wizarding world, just throw Jews in there to run the underground bank Jon Stewart “Let me show this – it’s the protocols of the Elders of Zion, I just want to show you a caricature, and they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s from ‘Harry Potter.’ “And you’re like, ‘No, that’s a caricature of a Jew from an anti-Semitic piece of literature.’ “JK 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.” Describing watching the film in the cinema he added: “It was one of those things where I saw it on the screen and I was expecting the crowd to be like, ‘Holy s**t, did not, in a wizarding world, just throw Jews in there to run the f*****g underground bank.’ “And everybody was just like, ‘Wizards’.