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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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Let us get a few facts straight: This book was forged by the Czarist secret police Ochrana beginning this century and published by a crazy priest, Sergius Nilus, in 1905 (just in time for the pogroms). It is a crude, anti-semitic rehash of an excellent 1864 book by Maurice Joly's "Les Dialogues aux Enfers" - a dialogue in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli, in which Machiavelli explains to a horrified Montesquieu how a liberal democracy with all the trappings (separations of power, a free press, etc) can be subverted step by step into a despotic regime.</p> This was a not-so-veiled critique of the autocratic reign of Napoleon III. There is, alas, no English translation of this book, although there are French and German versions (that I know of). If you are the sort of troglodyte who believes in world-wide conspiracies, then any advice I may have for you is useless.</p> If you are not, and you are just curious about a book which has had such a profound impact, I'd cautiously recommend reading it - bearing in mind that these lies contributed more than any other single book to the slaughter of millions of Jews in this century.

I read the book and watched the dvd by Marc Levin (called Protocols of Zion). I thought both were worth my time. The dvd provides clear evidence of what some in our world believe and shows the passions that are yoked to those convictions. There are people who will immediately discount and reject Levin's presentation, but, taken at face value, it clearly presents a collection of straight forward experiences and, honestly, saddens me. We are a deeply torn humanity.

As a researcher, Protocols was a book I needed to go through. While presenting itself as "Jewish," I'm amazed by the similarities I find, in outlook and method, with any number of anti-democratic totalitarian systems, with American Progressivism, Statist Secular Socialism, and even with Islamic political fundamentalism. One could replace many Jewish references with some other entity and recognize historic examples of what the Protocols convey, likely because the book presents the workings of evil. Evil finds its home in the human heart, in the human condition. Thus, no single people group escapes its touch and the Protocols can apply to many throughout history. Assume it was not of Jewish authorship and origination. The author would need to be intimate with the workings of evil him or her self to create the work. We meet ourselves.

I realize the book's fame is anchored to some Islamic promotion, yet the concept of "freedom" found on pages 51, 65, and 97 (in my copy), for example, is a similar concept, a similar view of freedom, as that found in Islam (freedom according to Shariah, harmony, and as outlined by Islamic thinkers like Seyyid Qutb). So, before one throws stones, one should examine his or her own system and see how Protocols speaks to it.

Not everyone needs to read the Protocols, and those who do should, perhaps, labor to see its wider implications.

There is something to be said of this book. It is nowhere NEAR the complete edition (There are more versions of this than I can count, almost all are edited and shortened considerably).

"The evil Jew" being responsible or not, take the "jew" out of it, and you'll see this book of the supposed meeting is actually a book of predictions that has come true in every respect.

If nothing else, it is a 95% accurate representation of today's western society...a godless, obsessed with entertainment, mindless, thoughtless, dumbed-down people that have another class of people over them. They have no hope, but are so dumb that they pay for their own destruction - socially, economically, intellectually.

Even if the book is "fake" (it IS a book, isnt it? How can it be fake? Is it invisible?) everything in it has come true.

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The Protocols were first published in 1903 by Pavel Krushevan, an instigator of the Kishinew pogrom, in his Russian newspaper called Znamia. The book is usually composed a certain number of protocols, from 24 to 27. This is definitively an interesting work, if we take into account the historic aspects. In my view, it is a shallow anacronism to judge a book today because of the mentality of some people who lived in Russia 100 years ago.

I would agree right away without any problem with all those who say that this is just propaganda if what I see around would be different. Just take a look to http://www.natall.com/who-rules-america for example. This book may be surely just a invention, but the facts that you see around at least tell you that there are some weird coincidences, although, maybe, they are just this, coincidences. Who knows.

Read this book simply for the sake of gaining insight as to the degree of hatred that it represents. It is a forgery, banned in many countries. It is a magnificent tool of propaganda, the language is complex and comes across as well researched and to those who do not know any better it is a convincing piece of literature. It has been used as the tool of the anti-semite since its publication, including Adolf Hitler, and so those who disagree with me will no doubt be his loyal post-mortem supporters, thier biggotry undying and their ignorance causing irrepairable damage. To this day, web sites quote Henry Fords appraisal of the work, they fail to quote his retraction and apology to the world of Jewry. [...]

The following is provided as a public service to all who are concerned with the Protocols Affair. "As early as 1921, the English journalist Philip Graves exposed the similarity between the Protocols and a political satire by Maurice Joly, 'Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu' (1864). Subsequent investigation showed the original document to be a forgery written by members of the Russian secret police." -The New Columbia Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press, New York and London, 1975, p. 2229. Additionally, in 1994, after an exhaustive year-long investigation, a Russian District Court in Moscow, Judge Ludmilla Belikova presiding, ruled that the Czarist-era 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion' was, in fact, a forgery and that its publication constituted an antisemitic act.

I don't know how to evaluate such a book. I bought it because I had read so many references to it. Certainly an important book to read in that it helps the reader to understand anti semitism and other related issues, like the origin of conspiracy theories.

Anyone who has a genuine interest in this book and its history will be better served by Binjamin Segal's A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Segel's work is from 1926, translated and supplemented with an excellent and lengthy introduction by University of Illinois-Chicago professor Richard Levy. An appendix excerpts the Protocols themselves, and this should be enough primary material for anyone who wants to introduce themselves to the ludicrous text itself.

Understanding how any literature can become the guiding beacon for a movement is key to preventing such mass hysteria in the future. Books like "Protocols" and "Mein Kampf" should not be prohibited sickness can be exposed to light for what it truly is.

The hullabaloo about one-world government as a Zionist (or Illuminati, or Freemason, or Rosicrucian) plot rises out of a deep fear that the "ruling" Christians will be unseated from their position of power.... More lives have been lost than saved because of religious zealots.

Books like this are uncomfortable. Yet, I would far rather keep them where I can see them than ban them, making them the sole domain of Christian conspiracy theorists who may, again, use them to eradicate an entire class of people.

"They that forget the past are condemned to repeat it." Read this book.