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Are the Harry Potter goblins an anti-Semitic trope?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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The idea that she would be in any way deliberately or consciously anti semitic in her portrayal of goblins seems to me to be unkind and probably unfair. But i once again refer back to the source of the accusation, which is john stuart. And he is, for me, a genius, but i am, i think, reserving the right to disagree with him on this, even though i'm not jewish, and his heritage is jewish. David hayman, i've just checked, is the producer of the harry pot of films. His paternal grandparents were german jews who left narcy, germany and emigrated to england just before the second

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