Protocols of the Elders of Zion - did the Jewish Elders write it?

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^ Iranian TV Series Based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Jewish Control of Hollywood. MEMRI. April 30, 2004
^ The Booksellers of Tehran,” The Wall Street Journal Online, October 28, 2005
^ His article about Protocoles on the 'Official Site of Abdollah Shahbazi'
^ CMIP report: The Jews in World History according to the Saudi textbooks. The Danger of World Jewry, by Abdullah al-Tall, pp. 140–141 (Arabic). Hadith and Islamic Culture, Grade 10, (2001) pp. 103–104.
^ 2006 Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of IntolerancePDF Report by Center for Religious Freedom of Freedom House. 2006
^ Efraim Karsh, Rethinking the Middle East, Routledge, 2003. p. 101
^ Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the US State Department February 28, 2005
^ The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) August 18, 1988 (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School) retrieved October 2005
^ "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in official PA ideology, 2001-2002 a Bulletin by Itamar Marcus at Palestinian Media Watch. (Retrieved January 2006)
^ The anti-Jewish lie that refuses to die by Steve Boggan, The Times, March 2, 2005
^ Palestinian Authority Promises to Remove Protocols References from Textbooks. Jewish Virtual Library. URL accessed March 18, 2006.
^ PNA Minister of Information removes the Protocols from their website (NYT - by subscription)
^ Antisemitism Worldwide 1995-6 (Project for the Study of Antisemitism, Tel Aviv University), pp. 265-6.
For more information on the popularity of the Protocols in Japan, see:
First Things Review of "Jews and the Japanese Mind"
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Aum, and Antisemitism in JapanPDF (336 KiB) by David G. Goodman at HUJI
Article Fugu Plan.
^ Kavgam ve Siyon Protokolleri, Ayşe Hür, Radikal 2, 13.03.2005
For more information on popularity of antisemitic literature in Turkey, see:
Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1 of Middle East Media Research Institute
^ Confronting Reality: Antisemitism in Australia Today by Jeremy Jones. Fall 2004
^ Walmart description (excerpt): "If, however, The Protocols are genuine (which can never be proven conclusively), it might cause some of us to keep a wary eye on world affairs." Walmart rolls back Ant-Semitic book at the Southern Poverty Law Center website
^ Arthur Hertzberg, Jews: The Essence and Character of a People Harper Collins, 1999. p 34.
^ The Paterson 'Protocols' by Daniel Pipes. New York Post. November 5, 2002
^ A documentary film, Protocols of Zion (2005)[2], connects the Protocols to a resurgence of antisemitism following the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.
^ Message of hate brought to Wooster campus
^ College of Wooster begins bridge building published in Cleveland Jewish News (retrieved Feb. 19, 2006)
^ Howard Sachar, A History of the Jews in the Modern World (Knopf, NY. 2005) p.722
^ Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (1987) p.575-576
^ Protocols of contention, Argumenty i fakty, September 10, 2003
^ Eye on Eurasia: Believing the Protocols By Paul Goble UPI, April 13, 2005
^ Antisemitism in the Post-Soviet States by Betsy Gidwitz. (JCPA) (April 2003)
^ Russia’s Public Chamber to Produce List of Literature to Ban, MosNews, January 27, 2006

Further reading
anonymous: The Protocols and World Revolution, Including a Translation and Analysis of the "Protocols of the Meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom," 1920 (Small, Maynard & Company); [This is the "First American Edition" of The Protocols of Zion]
Ben-Itto, Hadassa: The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 2005 (Vallentine Mitchell). Review
Stephen Eric Bronner: A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 0-19-516956-5
Cohn, Norman: Warrant for Genocide, 1967 (Eyre & Spottiswoode), 1996 (Serif) ISBN 1-897959-25-7
Eisner, Will: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. ISBN 0-393-06045-4
Jacobs, Steven Leonard and Weitzman, Mark: Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. (2003) ISBN 0-88125-785-0
Kis, Danilo: The Book Of Kings And Fools in The Encyclopedia of the Dead, 1989 (Faber and Faber)
De Michelis, Cesare G.: The Non-Existent Manuscript. A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion (Translated by Richard Newhouse; University of Nebraska Press, 2004) ISBN 0-8032-1727-7
Goldberg, Isaac: The so-called "Protocols of the Elders of Zion": a Definitive Exposure of One of the Most Malicious Lies in History (Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1936).
Singerman, Robert: "The American Career of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion", American Jewish History, Vol. 71 (1980), pp. 48-78
Timmerman, Kenneth R.: Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America (2003), Crown Forum. ISBN 1-4000-4901-6
Wolf, Lucien: The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs or, The Truth About the Forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion (New York, The Macmillan company, 1921).
The original Times articles exposing the book collected in a contemporary pamplet at archive.org [4]
Bernstein, Herman (1921): The History of a Lie, available at Project Gutenberg. As page images at archive.org [5]

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External links
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - entire text, in English and other languages (radioislam.org)
The Fictitious Protocols: A notorious work of modern antisemitic propaganda. Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Essay by Shaul Wallach on the Protocols
Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu - pamphlet by Maurice Joly on which The Protocols are based - from Project Gutenberg
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion: Plagiarism at its Best by José Delacruz
"The Antisemitic Hoax That Refuses to Die", The New York Times, April 21, 2006
The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police by Ben B. Fischer. History Staff Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA (declassified). 1997
A Hoax of Hate at Anti-Defamation League
What's the story with the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"? at Straight Dope
Interview with Pierre-André Taguieff references his 1992 historical and critical study, Les protocoles des sages de Sion, faux et usage d’un faux (Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Forgery and use of a forgery)
David ****erson's resource pages on the Protocols
Eli Eshed on the true history of the Protocols and the graphic novel by Will Eisner about it
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - a Muslim perspective by Yaniv Berman. March 05, 2005
The Protocols - a Muslim perspective by Yaniv Berman. March 05, 2005
Antisemitic Propaganda: The "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" at Religious Tolerance
Famous Fakes at NOVA (TV series) by WGBH, PBS
The poisonous Protocols by Umberto Eco at The Guardian. August 17, 2002.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Anti-Masonry and Antisemitism by Leon Zeldis
(Russian) Tsarism and Black Hundredism the role of the Tsarist state in the history of the Protocols. 1992 International Conference for National Egalitarianism and Responsibility for Fomenting Racial Hatred
(Russian) From the Christian Point of View. One hundred years since the first publication of the Protocols of Zion at RFERL
The New Protocols of the Elders of Zion (humour)

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In Summary:

Protocols of the Elders of Zion
One of the world's most notorious antisemitic documents, crafted at the end of the nineteenth century by the Tsarist Russian secret police, the Okhrana.

Drawing upon what was originally a German plagiarism of a French novel attacking the French emperor, Napoléon III - and which had nothing whatever to do with Jews, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was brimming with paranoid ruminations of a Jewish lust for world domination, and purported to be the transcript of a conspiratorial meeting of elderly Jewish plotters in the Jewish cemetery in Prague. This delirious fantasy has had the most extraordinarily long life. Intended originally to bolster the sagging fortunes of tsarist rule in Russia, the Protocols reached a broad public audience during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, when they were mobilized against the Bolshevik insurgents. They soon became a basic part of the antisemitic canon, helping to form part of the world view of such diverse proponents as Henry Ford and Adolf Hitler. Among many elements that attracted readers were the lurid portrayal of the plotters' mentality, the disparaging picture of modernity, and allusions to modern economic inequities. Although convincingly exposed as a forgery in England in 1921, the Protocols have been called the most widely circulated book on the globe, next to the Bible, and have appeared in countless editions and translations.

The Protocols have become an important text in anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda, have been disseminated widely throughout the Middle East, and have benefited from periodic approbation from politicians, academics, and the mass media in a considerable part of the Arab and Muslim world. As recently as November 2002, during Ramadan, the Protocols served as a main theme of an Egyptian television series, "A Rider without a Horse," that reached millions of viewers throughout the region.

Bibliography

Cohn, Norman. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the JewishWorld Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: Harper & Row; London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967.

Institute of Jewish Affairs. The Post-War Career of the Protocols of Zion. Research Report. London: Author, 1981.

Joly, Maurice. The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny, edited and translated by John S. Waggoner. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2002.

Segel, Binjamin W. A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, translated by Richard S. Levy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

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Comparison and the Basic Questions that Need to be Asked:



Malicious literature or scientific research by scholars - anti-Semites?

A brief look at some of the Protocols will quickly reveal the kind of malicious literature we are dealing with.

Let's do the math.


I am defending no one except the Truth and would always speak against cheap lies and malice vs any one.

I believe the next Article, well overdue, should be about the virtual genocide, the US Government has implemented vs. the Arab/Muslim population of the US.

There is no ample evidence that the considerable proportion of the Arab and Muslim Nation in the US has been involved in any terrorism.


Yes, terrorists exist but was it justified to treat so many
individuals of the Muslim heritage, particularly Arabs, the way they were and, still, are?


After 911, many were detained and their, basic rights were abused despite the Constitutional Laws.

When the thugs practice such terrorism against one People, they may do so against the other People in the future.

Looking away is aiding a crime.

Do we, ever, learn from the Lessons of History?
Do we?

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One of the questions that people who claim the Protocols are genuine can't seem to answer is: Where is the Hebrew edition??

By the now the Protocols have appeared in most of the major languages on earth -- Russian of course, English, French, German (no surprise), Spanish, Arabic (absolutely no surprise), Farsi, Turkish, Japanese, etc.etc.

But a book written by rabbis, or at least Jewish leaders, to be read around the world by other Jewish leaders logically would also have a Hebrew edition. Logically, from the story, would have originally been in Hebrew, and would have been reprinted and reissued numerous times over the decades by different Hebrew printers, some editions probably embellished with charts, maps, and the like.

Yet not a single Hebrew copy of the Protocols has ever come to light, not even from people who supposedly have lived among Jews and claim that Jews really have this book.

And that, to me, is a very significant matter.

[David Merrill]

One of the questions that people who claim the Protocols are genuine can't seem to answer is: Where is the Hebrew edition??

They are likely a genuine forgery. The original version having to do with Prussian politics has been destroyed and the forgery, framing the Jews has survived.

This is analyzed in the latter half of Holy Blood, Holy Grail.



Regards,

David Merrill.

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Originally Posted by David Merrill

They are likely a genuine forgery. The original version having to do with Prussian [Russian/German/Bolshevik(?)] politics has been destroyed and the forgery, framing the Jews has survived.

This is analyzed in the latter half of Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

Regards,

David Merrill.

Without Prejudice.
Its more like "Aryan Supremacists" / Phillistine/ Ammonite or other the like types impersonating Hebrews or Jews with a view to destroying them.

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Originally Posted by fulltitle

Without Prejudice.
Its more like "Aryan Supremacists" / Phillistine/ Ammonite or other the like types impersonating Hebrews or Jews with a view to destroying them.

Well, maybe. I remember they make a very good argument for forgery - meaning alteration of the original. And I read the Protocols many years ago. I agree that the discrepancies are due to forgery of an original - that the Protocols as they are, are not the original document.



Regards,

David Merrill.

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Originally Posted by Shoonra

One of the questions that people who claim the Protocols are genuine can't seem to answer is: Where is the Hebrew edition??

By the now the Protocols have appeared in most of the major languages on earth -- Russian of course, English, French, German (no surprise), Spanish, Arabic (absolutely no surprise), Farsi, Turkish, Japanese, etc.etc.

But a book written by rabbis, or at least Jewish leaders, to be read around the world by other Jewish leaders logically would also have a Hebrew edition. Logically, from the story, would have originally been in Hebrew, and would have been reprinted and reissued numerous times over the decades by different Hebrew printers, some editions probably embellished with charts, maps, and the like.
Yet not a single Hebrew copy of the Protocols has ever come to light, not even from people who supposedly have lived among Jews and claim that Jews really have this book.

And that, to me, is a very significant matter.

A strong, logical argument indeed!

As much as some folks love money, there would have been enough firms that had published the
Protocols in Hebrew.


However, the strongest evidence of cheap forgery
remains the fact that the Protocols are almost identical by meaning to the French version of the pamphlet
"Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu", published by the
non-Jewish French satirist Maurice Joly in 1864.

Maurice Joly work has much resemblence with Eugene Sue's "The Mysteries of the People."

Such "coincidences" just can't happen even in
1 to 1,000,000,000 chance.

That is where, I believe, the main proof of forgery lies.
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Henry Ford and some of the Klu Klux Klan

Henry Ford, the automobile tycoon and founder of the Ford Motor Company, borrowed heavily from The Protocols to write his scandalous and equally erroneous editorials in the Dearborn Independent that later became the book The International Jew.


"[Ku Klux] Klan editors had assembled ninety-six of Henry Ford's anti-Semitic essays from The Dearborn
Independent and bound them in a volume they entitled The International Jew.

The book subsequently was reprinted in Germany by the Nazi World Service.

On January 12, 1942, an embarrassed Henry Ford wrote Colescott saying that he did 'not subscribe or support, directly or indirectly, any agitation which would promote antagonism against my Jewish fellow citizens.' Ford threatened the Klan with legal action unless it ceased publication and circulation of his misbegotten essays." [The Fiery Cross p. 273] US Congress, House Congressional Record, 77 Cong., 2 Sess. (1942): A1084.

Faced with a libel suit filed in a Detroit court in 1927, Ford had publicly apologized and formally retracted his attacks on the "International Jew".

The Christian faith and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are incompatible.

Any Christian that promotes them is not only breaking the 10 Commandments, but also makes a mockery of Jesus Christ and all that He stands for.

The Ten Commandments clearly state in Deuteronomy 5:20
“Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

It was the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels who said
'if you repeat the lie long enough and
loud enough eventually people will believe it’.


Who does believe the Protocols?

To each his own!


It needs to be noted that any Citizen of any country
does not necessarily represents that country
or the majority.


The main focus remains not which
individual wrote the blueprint first and at which country
but whether the Jewish Leaders have written the
so-called Protocols or not?

Let's face it; that (II) takes considerable intelligence and power!

The Question:

So, how can, then, the same People be so intelligent
and powerful and so stupid and naive at the same time?

Unbelievably foolish contradiction!
Is it not?

Only hard core anti-Semites have the answer which,
still, defies the History and the basic, common sense -
whatever position they adopt:
I or II!

Scapegoating is at the core of all projected blames by all sorts of Jews-haters.

It is always the Jew, to them......always...

[David Merrill]

However, the strongest evidence of cheap forgery remains the fact that the Protocols are almost identical by meaning to the French version of the pamphlet "Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu", published by the non-Jewish French satirist Maurice Joly in 1864.

Thanks! I will get a look for that pamphlet.