Hogwarts Legacy shofar controversy reignites antisemitism accusations on social media
Recommended VideosThe lead-up and the arrival of Hogwarts Legacy have been loaded with controversy. The Harry Potter franchise has an ugly dark mark on it from creator J.K. Rowling, who has shared repeated transphobic and hateful rhetoric on social media. Readers have taken issue with antisemitic imagery in the series with the goblins, creatures with hooked noses who handle the world’s banks. Those antisemitism accusations towards the Wizarding World IP continue in Hogwarts Legacy with players discovering an ancient goblin artifact: a musical instrument that bares a similar resemblance to a shofar, a real-world item used for Jewish religious purposes.
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