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Protocols of the

Elders of Zion a Work of Fiction

Countless people believe there is a

Jewish and Masonic plot to control the world;

there is absolutely no truth to the story

The story starts in Russia, a country with a long history of anti-Semitism, with a journalist named Matvei Golovinski.

(Others suggest the conspiracy theory was cooked up by the Russian secret police. Holocaust-History.com says “The Protocols were actually written in Paris sometime between 1895 and 1899 by an agent of the Russian secret police Pytor Ivanovich Rachovsky, who is known to have forged other documents for the various intrigues in which he took part.”)

Protocols a Forgery and also Plagiarized

The text of the Protocols first appeared in Russia in 1897 where it was privately published and much of it is lifted from earlier publications.

The Skeptic’s Dictionary says “It is copied from a nineteenth century novel by Hermann Goedsche (Biarritz, 1868) and claims that a secret Jewish cabal is plotting to take over the world.”

But, Goedsche lifted the story from a French satirist and lawyer named Maurice Joly. In 1864, Joly wrote a work of fiction entitled Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, in which he attacked Napoleon III’s ambitions to rule the world.

Through these and other versions the text morphed into the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia in 1905.

Claim of the Protocols Entirely False

The claim is that the Protocols form a secret document that was discovered and that details a master plan to take over the world.

The Holocaust Encyclopedia describes them as “24 chapters, or protocols, allegedly minutes from meetings of Jewish leaders, the Protocols ‘describes’ the ‘secret plans’ of Jews to rule the world by manipulating the economy, controlling the media, and fostering religious conflict.”

The first English translation was done by Victor E. Marsden in 1920; the book sold out five editions in one year in England alone. Hitler referred to the Protocols in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) and uses their existence as “proof” of the need to deal with what he called the “Jewish problem.”

Part of this plan was to put Jews into concentration camps, such as here in Buchenwald, and work them as slave labourers on starvation rations until they died. Others were shot, gassed, or murdered in whatever ways the Nazi killing machines could devise. The mass extermination program was called the Holocaust, while Jews use call it by the ancient Biblical word “Shoah,” meaning calamity.

Elders of Zion Document has plenty of Believers

Scholars worldwide have proven the Protocols to be pure anti-Semitic bunkum. Apart from a few fringe racists who cling to their delusions, the Protocols are now seen as a fraud in the West.

But, the Protocols have been swallowed whole as factual by some. Henry Ford, creator of the Ford Motor Company and a well-known anti-Semite, said in February 1921: “The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit it now.”

Protocols Stir Hate in the Middle East

While the Protocols have been totally discredited in the West the situation in the Middle East is different.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Protocols “are perennial bestsellers in the Middle East. The seriousness with which they appear to be taken in the Middle East may be partly explained by the number of prominent Muslims who have endorsed them. [Egyptian President] Nasser endorsed the Protocols in 1958, as did President Sadat, President Arif of Iraq, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Colonel Qaddafi of Libya, and others.”

Add to that list Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, who also claims the Holocaust did not happen

Sources

“What are the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?” Holocaust History, June 1, 1999.

“Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Proud of Holocaust Denial.” Associated Press, September 21, 2009.

A brief Internet search reveals scores of hate groups claiming the Protocols to be a revealed truth. Many of these groups are fundamentalist Christian such as Bible Believers who blame Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus.