J.K. Rowling slams critic accusing her of being far right

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Often under fire for her views on gender, J.K. Rowling is no stranger to clapping back at critics.

The Harry Potter author dismissed an X user who suggested she was “far right” while pretending she isn’t.

Rowling shared a screenshot of a post that began with “@jk_rowling is far right.”

It continued: “I don’t care how many times she pretends she isn’t. She gets all of her information from neo-Nazi publications and far-right groups.”

The critic added: “She believes a far-right conspiracy theory that is basically just ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ but for trans people.”

According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is “the most notorious and widely distributed anti-Semitic publication of modern times,” yet its “lies about Jews, which have been repeatedly discredited, continue to circulate today, especially on the internet.”

Rowling’s post also included her own response to the hater: “You can keep telling yourself this, but you’re simply wrong.”

She declared: “I’m a left-leaning liberal who’s fiercely anti-authoritarian, and if you couldn’t deduce that from my work, you haven’t understood a word of it.”

Rowling added she considers herself “idealist” who believes in human beings, while having a deep distrust of hardened ideologies.

“My values haven’t changed; what’s changed is the political landscape,” the writer said.

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“What was once my natural home (a pragmatic centre-left party focused on dealing with economic disparity, championing social liberalism and equal rights) is now dominated by an illiberal, identity-based strain of politics I consider elitist, harmful and out of touch with the day-to-day concerns of regular people, particularly women.”

Rowling noted that there is “currently an assault on women’s rights unparalleled in my lifetime, and it’s coming from both left and right.”

She added: “If ever there was a time for women across the political spectrum to come together, it is now.”

Many social media users have branded Rowling a TERF (Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist), which she has repeatedly denied.

Rowling also reshared a post she wrote earlier this year that said: “The truth is that the left has f***ed up monumentally on gender identity ideology and until it owns the mistake, it will continue to hand the right valid talking points.”

She added: “Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren’t and never have been far right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we’re watching it do its utmost to alienate people it used to represent.”