THE PewDiePie 'anti-Semitic' furore has escalated after one of the journalists who alerted Disney to the YouTuber's offensive videos was alleged to have made jokes about Jewish people on Twitter.

Disney recently cut ties with the web celeb after the Wall Street Journal told one of its subsidiaries about nine PewDiePie videos which allegedly "include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery".

4 The star delivered this one-fingered salute to the Wall Street Journal

In one of these, he used the website Fiverr to pay two men to unveil a sign which said: "Death to all Jews".

The row has split the internet, with some accusing PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg for normalising racism and others defending his right to make jokes about sensitive subjects.

And now some of Kjellberg's fans - including several high profile names - have accused Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Fritz, who revealed the news that Disney had dropped Kjellberg, of being a "hypocrite" in a tweet from several years ago in which he appears to express shock that Jewish people were "so adept at frying" and that he had a "hard on for the Nazis".

4 Fritz appears to joke with a pal over the hit Netflix show the Man in the High Castle

4 Reporter Ben Fritz caused a stir over this allegedly "hypocritical" tweet

4 Fritz' joke from back in 2015 has been deemed hypocritical

The tweet, from 2009, has garnered criticism from the YouTube generation as well as British paedophile hunter and filmmaker Stinson Hunter.

The filmmaker wrote: "You probably wish you had left your account private given your anti-Semitic 'jokes' and hypocrisy."

Keemstar, anchor of the YouTube news show DramaAlert and one of PewDiePie's high profile supporters, also weighed in.

He tweeted: "The journalist from the Wall Street Journal that attacked PewDiePie for anti-Semitic jokes is a f****** hypocrite!"

Fritz, who has been contacted for comment, earlier tweeted that he had locked down his social media for "safety" reasons after suffering a torrent of abuse from PewDiePie fans following last week's Disney debacle.

It is unclear why the account is now open again and there is a possibility he may have been hacked, although Twitter does not allow you to backdate tweets and the messages in question were written between 2009 and 2015.

Fritz has previously tweeted that he is the son of a Catholic and atheist Jewish woman.

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My tweets are for now limited to followers I approve. Not b/c I mind criticism, but b/c I unfortunately have reason to be safety-minded... — Ben Fritz (@benfritz) February 16, 2017

PewDiePie took to YouTube to deny the the allegations that he was an anti-Semite last Thursday.

He said: “If people don’t like my jokes I fully respect that, I fully understand that.

“I acknowledge that I took things too far and that’s something I will definitely keep in mind moving forward.

“But the reaction and the outrage has been nothing but insanity.”

PewDiePie added: “Is there any hate in what I do? No, absolutely not.

“Personally, I think they [the media] are the ones normalising hatred because there is actual hatred out there.”

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