Jon Stewart denies blaming JK Rowling for being hostile to Semitism.
US talk show has Jon Stewart has denied blaming Harry Potter creator JK Rowling for being hostile to Semitism in remarks he made on a digital recording the month before.
The comedian analyzed trolls who run Gringotts bank in the series of imagination books and movies to characters in a 1903 enemy of Semitic distribution.
He has now said the discussion played on the digital broadcast was intended to be "happy," and he "doesn't think the Harry Potter motion pictures are hostile to Semitic."
The US comic, who used to have The Daily Show, presently gives Apple TV series The Problem Jon Stewart and its digital broadcast.
In a December episode of the web recording, Stewart talked about scenes from the Harry Potter film series, set in Gringotts' enchanted bank.
In Rowling's tremendously fruitful books and the ensuing movies, the trolls who run the bank are portrayed as testy, modest animals who are the watchmen of the gold.
The primary book portrays one as "about ahead more limited than Harry."
"He had a dark, cunning face, a sharp facial hair growth, and Harry saw, extremely long fingers and feet," it says.
Some have proposed the portrayal depends on cartoons of Jews from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first distributed in 1903, which indicates to uncover a Jewish arrangement for global control.
Talking on the webcast, Stewart said he had discussions regarding the book with individuals hesitant to recognize the likeness.
"[People think,] 'Goodness, that is a person from Harry Potter,' [and] you're similar to, 'No, that is a personification of a Jew from an enemy of Semitic piece of writing.' JK Rowling resembled, 'Would we be able to get these folks to run our bank?'" Stewart said.
"It was something where I saw it on the screen and I was anticipating that the crowd should resemble, 'Heavenly [expletive], she didn't, in a wizarding world, simply toss Jews in there to run the underground bank.'"
Rowling, who has recently revolted against hostile to Semitism, was effectively associated with the film series and has a maker credit on the last two movies, just as the Fantastic Beasts side projects.