“speaking out against anti-Semitism” in this context means calling anyone who criticises Israel anti Semitic while desperately trying to brush the greedy blood drinking hook nosed goblin bankers that have a star of David on the floor under a massive rug

Link to article bcs I’m not a lib (CW: transphobia): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/16/jk-rowling-holocaust-denier-allegation-rivkah-brown-novara/

edit: i linked the wrong article sowwy cri. here’s the one i linked before by accident https://forward.com/culture/603271/jk-rowling-holocaust-streisand-effect/

On an unrelated note heres some of the official Harry Potter promotional material:

  • Leon_Frotsky [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    the only reason she apologised was because JK Rowling threatened to sue her because the UK is a fucked up country where any nineteeneightyfour 1984 wrongspeak nineteeneightyfour can get you taken to court and bled dry from legal fees under our fucked up libel laws

    • ejra212 [he/him/his]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      yeonmi-park In the authoritarian land of Britain, you can be hateful, but when someone calls you out, they can be silenced by threatening them with kangaroo trials. They even force you to apologize at the point of cancelling you and your career.

      spoiler

      Sorry for my poor attempt of a Park Yeonmi style comment.

      • Leon_Frotsky [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        yeah, as much as jk rowling goes on about how free speech needs to be utterly protected, she’s constantly threatening to sue people who criticise her to shut them up, basically lays bare how all she wants “”“free speech”“” for is to post increasongly fascistic rants on her twitter without criticism