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January 10, 2022

The Dangers of Employing False Accusations of Anti-Semitism to Score Points in the Culture War

Complaints about J.K. Rowling’s goblins have nothing to do with Jews.

Last week, the British author J.K. Rowling found herself accused of anti-Semitism on the grounds that, in the movies based on her Harry Potter books, the goblins who run the magical bank have hooked noses. Dismissing this claim against Rowling, Stephen Pollard suggests that many of her critics are in fact motivated by her vocal objections to certain radical ideas about transsexuality, which have made her the target of much invective:

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