Convinced that a Jewish conspiracy was in the works, Hitler mentioned the Protocols in his tract Mein Kampf and in speeches, while Minister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels distributed the text widely. Later in the century, the Protocols became a bestseller in the Muslim world. The Protocols help provide a denunciation of Zionism as the source of all problems in Arab lands, an excuse for the defeat of Arab armies, and a reason for their slow economic development.
The Palestinian Islamic group Hamas, which now rules Gaza, has made excerpts of the Protocols actual articles of its charter. From Iraq to the Palestinian territories, from Egypt to Iran, from Turkey to Indonesia, there is not one Muslim country that has not published or distributed the Protocols , even in recent years.
Holocaust deniers have also contributed to the legacy of the Protocols. They claim that the Holocaust never happened and that it was a Jewish plot aimed at establishing the State of Israel and receiving financial compensation from Germany. They cite the Protocols to confirm their fantasies, and they provide editions in various languages on the Internet. The fact that the text of the Protocols continues to be reprinted, quoted, and recycled to this day remains a troublesome curiosity in the history of hoaxes and conspiracy literature.
Communications technology has long enabled the spread of hatred, but the internet and related tools have expanded the reach of anti-Semitism by orders of magnitude. Opinions about Alfred Dreyfus--and modern anti-Semitism--were expressed through the new print media of the day. Two millennia of European anti-Semitism can be traced to early Christian beliefs about Jewish culpability in the murder of Jesus. We use cookies to improve your experience on our site and bring you ads that might interest you.
Who Wrote the Protocols? Join Our Newsletter Empower your Jewish discovery, daily. The most common U. The Protocols have become a major source of Arab and Islamic propaganda. Between and alone, approximately 50 books on political subjects published in Arabic were either based on the Protocols or quoted from them. In , Hazern Nuseibeh, the Jordanian delegate to the United Nations, spoke about the Protocols as a genuine document.
In October of the Iranian Embassy in Brazil circulated copies of the Protocols, which it said "belongs to the history of the world. During the s Muslim groups peddled the forgery worldwide. American Black Muslim groups have sold it. Based on a perverse "interpretation" of the Protocols, the Saudi Arabian government blamed Israel for an attack on a synagogue in Istanbul in With Glasnost there has also been a reappearance of the Protocols in the Soviet Union.
A Soviet book released in called "On the Class Essence of Zionism" revived insidious canards contained in the Protocols, and made repeated references to Jews engaging in "constant efforts to gain control of the world. In a Swiss judge, presiding at a trial of two Swiss National Socialists charged with circulating the Protocols, wrote:. I hope that one day there will come a time when no one will any longer comprehend how in the year almost a dozen fully sensible and reasonable men could for fourteen days torment their brains before a court of Berne over the authenticity or lack of authenticity of these so-called Protocols There are still those anti-Semites and their willing audiences who remain ready to circulate and believe this fantasy of hate.
Skip Navigation. Expand search Search. Coughlin serializes the Protocols in his newspaper, Social Justice. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on.
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