Jon Stewart shot back at viral news coverage of comments he had made in an episode of his podcast “The Problem With Jon Stewart” about the anti-Semitic portrayal of goblins in J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series.
In a four-minute video captioned “Newsweek et al, may eat my ass,” Stewart clarified remarks he had made in the December 2021 episode, including comparing the goblins who run the Gringotts bank and anti-Semitic drawings featured in a 1903 book called “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
In the new video, Stewart recounted having a “lighthearted conversation” about anti-Semitic stereotypes in film and the experience of watching the “Harry Potter” films “as a Jewish man” before clarifying his views on the author.