The Protocols are back

[King_David]

Op-ed: Revival of infamous anti-Semitic book fuelled both by Muslim leaders, Christian clergy

Giulio Meotti Published: 08.15.11, 19:29 / Israel Opinion
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The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a short book concocted by the czarist police and presented as minutes of a secret meeting where Jews plotted world domination, is the biggest falsehood that refuses to die. It’s the only book that has ever had the perverse distinction of being both globally influential and, at the same time, a forgery.



The “Protocols” are now prominently displayed not only in the Middle East, but also on the Western and Christian bookshelf. Books based on the “Protocols” are now available even in countries with hardly any Jews such as Japan. A Chinese bestseller entitled “The Currency War” and based on the “Protocols,” describes how Jews are planning to control the world by manipulating the financial system. The book is reportedly read in the highest government circles.



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Recently, an Iranian stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair presented a copy of the “Protocols” published in English by the Islamic Republic of Iran in plain view. Thousands of Jews have been killed in Europe because of this infamous document. Hitler used it as a manual in his war to exterminate the Jews and Palestinian suicide bombers have been found with the “Protocols” in their pockets.



Renowned historian Bernard Lewis wrote that the “Protocols” were brought into the Islamic world by Christian authors who translated the book into Arabic. That shameful operation is still battering the Middle East. The “Protocols” rarely attracts Western attention, as we like to think that it is just a bad joke. But now some Christian sects and bishops are fomenting hatred against the Jews using traditional ant-Semitism - much of it theological.



Indeed, many bishops are quoting again from the “Protocols.” In an interview with George Saliba, Bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Lebanon, aired on Al-Dunya TV on July 24, 2011, he declared: “The source that finances and incites all these international organizations, in the East and West, and especially in the Arab world, they are led by a single, evil organization, known as Zionism.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4109236,00.html

[MADem]

1. The Egyptians had a beaut of a "soap opera" replete with ghastly

representations of Jews in living color with fulsome plots, overblown makeup and melodrama up the yingyang. It was called "Horseman without a Horse" or something along those lines. it was a real hatefest, and it ran for a couple of years...

[LeftishBrit]

2. Were they ever gone?

I have to say that Meotti is *not* a good source in general; he is a big subscriber to and promoter of the 'Eurabia', 'Muslims taking control of Europe' myths - which have a certain amount in common with the Protocols even if they fortunately have not yet had quite the same level of influence.

But he is certainly right about the Protocols and other aspects of traditional antisemitism being used by some Christian churches. Fortunately, it is not quite as pervasive as it used to be; but it's easily found. The far-right Catholic splinter group, the SPXX, is replete with it:

http://www.romancatholicism.org/bp-williamson.htm

And as I remember the last American election and its aftermath brought up the questionable views of some Protestant preachers on all sides of the political scale, from the Reverend Wright's claims that President Obama was being turned against him by 'them Jews' (Axelrod and Rahm) to the preacher in Palin's church in Wasilla who complained that Jews control the economy.

[bemildred]

3. +1.

Mainly attention whoring I would guess.

[Lithos]

5. You are correct about Meotti

The last election here in the US brought up extremely questionable and bigoted views which involved both Jews and Muslims. To be honest, there was not a lot of "Christian" love from people who felt empowered to speak authoritatively on the subject.

[Igel]

4. I knew a guy that believed the Protocols were real.

Had me read them. I found them funny. Too over the top. They sounded phoney. Then again, I'd read a lot of Russian by then. (BTW, actually finding somebody who thinks they're a toxic fake *and* has read them is a rarity.)

I told him they were a forgery, and the response was expected: "They just *want* you to think they're a forgery." Can't argue with that. So I didn't try. Answer not a fool according to his folly.

They're still around in the West.

Oddly, the guy was also big into the Illuminati, Bilderbergers, Bohemian Grove, Trilateral Commission, zero-point energy, and Tesla. (As well as believing that UFOs were actually the ships flown by the aliens that lived in the hollow earth, with exits at the north and south poles.)

[Lithos]

6. I knew one as well...

Worked with him... pretty disgusting.

[bemildred]

7. Conspiracies are everywhere, once you start looking.

It can get addictive, sort of. And you are "smarter" than other people, nobody is going to fool you!

And theories are easy to come up with, a dime a dozen, like sand in the desert. I think up several every day just reading the news and wondering WTF politicians are really up to. There is more to this thinking business than just slapping some ideas together in what you think is a clever way.

Personally I don't care how the Protocols came to be written, they are still anti-semitic crap, just like racist crap is racist crap regardless of how it came to be, or whether it is excellent prose, it is the content that matters.