Alan Silvestri wrote mysterious music for women wearing wigs with big noses. His grand waltz for the Grand High Witch represents total power that works in mysterious ways. Some people believe this about Jews, playing into antisemitic tropes of Jews being the “puppet masters” of the world.

Did Silvestri know that Roald Dahl's first wife called him "Roald the Rotten?" When you see all the facts, it's kind of hard to disagree.

In 1983, Dahl said Hitler was justified in the Holocaust. “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason,” Dahl said.

Later on, he doubled down on his hatred of Jews, repeating the antisemitic idea that Jews control the media: “There aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media – jolly clever thing to do – that’s why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”

As A.R. Vishny wrote in Alma, “Just so we’re clear: He was proud of it. He never apologized. He went to his grave believing that Jews control the media and that Hitler ‘didn’t just pick on them for no reason.'”

Plus, he wasn’t just antisemitic; he was also very racist. (See: the first descriptions of Oompa Loompas, described as a tribe of “African Pygmies.”)