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Culture J.K. Rowling didn’t want to be called a Holocaust denier. That backfired.
The author's attempts to quiet her critics ended up making the accusations far more viral.
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Culture It wasn’t just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now?
The British author posted that Nazis did not persecute trans people. That's false.
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Film & TV A ‘Harry Potter’ reboot is coming — here are our unsolicited ideas for Jewish plotlines
J.K. Rowling has come under fire for, among many other things, possible antisemitic stereotypes in her books
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Books Think the goblins in Harry Potter are antisemitic? Try the rest of British literature
British literature is so full of antisemitic tropes that the goblins in Harry Potter are now the most obvious ones
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Culture I am begging you all to please shut up about the Harry Potter Jew-goblins
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