Was Walt Disney an antisemitic ?
Neal Gabler, author of the book “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination”, as quoted from his Nov. 1, 2006 “The Early Show” interview: “Walt Disney got the reputation (of being an anti-Semite) because, in the 1940s, he got himself allied with a group called The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, which was an anti-Communist and anti-Semitic organization. And though Walt himself, in my estimation, was not anti-Semitic, nevertheless, he willingly allied himself with people who were anti-Semitic, and that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it throughout his life.” But Disney published quite a few anti-nazi propaganda cartoons, so it’s hard to say.
