“I thought, why is this a factor at all? I wonder how J.K. Rowling has absorbed it. I suppose at a certain point I’ll meet her and I’m curious to talk to her," the actor said of the author, who has been slammed for her anti-trans comments.
In 1983, he announced in the New Statesman that Hitler had his reasons for exterminating six million men, women and children. “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity,” he said. “I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
That’s… pretty fucking anti-semitic ngl. He’s basically victim-blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust. Also “picking on them” is quite a eufemism for “industrially genociding”.
That’s got nothing to do with zionism or being anti-Israel.
What specifically did he say that was rationalizing anti-semitism?
Is it your belief that all anti-Zionism is anti-semitism?
Not the guy you replied to, but:
That’s… pretty fucking anti-semitic ngl. He’s basically victim-blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust. Also “picking on them” is quite a eufemism for “industrially genociding”.
That’s got nothing to do with zionism or being anti-Israel.
Yep that’s pretty fucking horrific.
I think that’s case closed.
If we’re done here can you turn off the lights on your way out?