LONDON: J.K. Rowling, creator of the mass-selling “Harry Potter” books, made an impassioned plea Monday for Britons to vote to stay in the EU, warning in a blog posting against rising nationalism across the world.
The British author, whose novels and films about the boy wizard have become a global phenomenon, said many of those backing a Brexit in Thursday’s EU referendum were making a protest “against everything about modern life that scares us.”
She condemned US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a “fascist in all but name,” and said his “nationalist cries” had been reflected in the campaign for Britain to end its 43-year membership of the European Union.
She especially condemned an anti-immigration poster by the UK Independence Party (UKIP), led by Nigel Farage, showing refugees trying to come into Europe as “an almost exact duplicate of propaganda used by the Nazis.”
The British author, whose novels and films about the boy wizard have become a global phenomenon, said many of those backing a Brexit in Thursday’s EU referendum were making a protest “against everything about modern life that scares us.”
She condemned US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a “fascist in all but name,” and said his “nationalist cries” had been reflected in the campaign for Britain to end its 43-year membership of the European Union.
She especially condemned an anti-immigration poster by the UK Independence Party (UKIP), led by Nigel Farage, showing refugees trying to come into Europe as “an almost exact duplicate of propaganda used by the Nazis.”
