PewDiePie: YouTube star loses Disney deal after anti-Semitic video

Swedish comedian Felix Kjellberg claims 'Death to all Jews' footage was a joke to show 'how crazy the modern world is'

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YouTube star PewDiePie has lost a lucrative partnership deal with Disney-owned Maker Studios after a Wall Street Journal investigation highlighted nine instances of anti-Semitism in his videos.

Examples cited by the paper include footage of a man dressed as Jesus saying: "Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong," and two men in India being crowdfunded to hold up a sign reading: "Death to all Jews."

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