Disney’s Shyster Character
Vos iz Neias Was Walt Disney a rabid anti-Semite? Richard Sherman (Disney’s “Mary Poppins,” ‘‘The Jungle Book”) dismissed such lingering criticism outright.
It’s “absolutely preposterous to call him anti-Semitic,” said Sherman, the son of Jewish immigrants..
Historian and social critic Neal Gabler, author of “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood,” said he exhaustively researched Disney for the 2006 book “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.”
“I saw no evidence other than the casual anti-Semitism that” was common to non-Jews during Disney’s 20th-century era, Gabler said..