Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1519560 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

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Amazon.com, April 6, 2000 Review

Although it's a pernicious fraud, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion has unfortunately had a widespread influence--all of it evil--on the history of the 20th century. It was exposed as a hoax in 1921, yet it has been used as a justification for the Holocaust and for innumerable pogroms in Russia and the Soviet Union.

The Protocols was supposedly written in 1897 from the minutes of 24 secret meetings between Jews and Freemasons in which they conspired to bring down Western civilization and jointly rule the world. In reality, it is nothing of the sort. In 1921, Philip Graves of the London Times revealed The Protocols to be a fraud, showing it to be based on a French satire aimed at Napoleon III. In a series of side-by-side extracts printed in the Times, Graves demonstrated that the forgers took long portions of the original text, titled Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, and simply replaced "France" with "Zion" and "The Emperor" with "We the Jews." Further investigations by the Russian historian Vladimir Burtsev revealed other sources for The Protocols, including a fantasy novel by Hermann Goedsche and, more darkly, the hand of the Russian secret police.

Sadly, despite its clearly fraudulent nature, The Protocols continues today to feed the fears of the credulous and to fan the flames of fanaticism and hate. --Perry M. Atterberry

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Synopsis
The Protocols was supposedly written in 1897 from the minutes of 24 secret meetings between Jews and Freemasons in which they conspired to bring down Western civilization and jointly rule the world. In reality, it is nothing of the sort. In 1921, Philip Graves of the London Times revealed The Protocols to be a fraud, showing it to be based on a French satire aimed at Napoleon III. It is the most notorious and most successful work of modern antisemitism, and was used as part of a propaganda campaign by the Russian secret police in 1905.

Customer Reviews

What does "controversial" mean anyway?
So, it's controversial they say? Must we only read everything that's acceptable? Then ask yourself, "acceptable to whom?. If it's a nice "normal" story you want then this isn't for you. If you read it freely and without predjudice towards any race or colour and reflect on the way the world is heading then it is very informative. We must uphold the freedom of being able to choose for ourselves and always respect the views of others. I know many Jews who also found this book "interesting". Love of finding the truth is important for everyone whatever social background you fit into. It is up to the individual to decide what is controversial and not by someone somewhere whose morals are unknown to the reader. I would review this book as very interesting.

Written by the Jesuits, not Jews!
Arthur Schopenhauer, a Jew once stated: The truth comes in three stages
1)Firstly it is ridiculed, 2)Then violently opposed, 3)Finally it is accepted as self evident.
Such critical analysis couldnt be applied to this document any further!
I have been studying the Protocols for a while now and find them very disturbing in that everything thats so boldly stated here has actually come true!
What these quasi intellectual religious book burners fail to realize is sometimes you have to let the cat out of the bag or suffer in silence and the trouble with criticizing world Jewry is you are automatically labeled "antisemitic". A very clever smokescreen defense for the most cunning of all organizations. The Jesuit Order! In fact this book was not written by Jews it was written by Roman Catholic Jesuit priests who carefully laid blame on Jews to cover their tracks which fomented Hitler's campaign. Something they're still doing today.
What any independent researcher has to ask is to what extent must the Global Elite go to rule us all in a New World Order that is so clearly emerging. A totalitarian fascist police state ruled by bankers. How the 'Jews' control the media and only allow lies or propaganda to emerge as news that way keeping the public in the dark about wars and why they occur.
In fact there is much evidence to suggest 90% of Jews today are not actually semitic and descend from the Khazars from 670AD. Less than 10% are really semitic(Sephardic)Jews and they are the bane of these Asiatic Monguls who in Rev2:9 Christ refers to as the 'Synagogue of Satan'. Witness the testimony of a very wealthy ex Zionist Jew, Benjamn Freedman who actually endorses this book as absolute proof of a conspiracy!
Also have you wondered why time and time after time the true Torah Jews come out in Manhattan Square protesting against the state of Israel and its atrocities it commits on the semitic Jews there????
Yet the media choose to ignore them, almost like they're trying to cover up something. Maybe that cat in the bag????
All i can say is forget the book burners and media critics who couldnt find their way out of a paper bag and buy this book. Read it thoroughly and tell me none of these things have happened. You will be hard pushed my friends as most of them have and are happening as i write.
This is a wake up call not to rally against Jews but against the Jesuits who tried to blame them for this obscene publication. The Jesuit Order that was expelled more than 39 times from every country in Europe yet still managed to infiltrate their way to the top of every govt on this planet, bar Haiti. Thats some achievement, and here's how they did it!

Poor literature, sick content
The first thing to mention about this book is that only about a third of it contains the 'Protocols' as per the title. The first third of the book is devoted to extracts from the 'Dearborn Independent', a newspaper published in the 1920s by Henry Ford. Mr. Ford was very keen on the idea of a 'World Jewish Conspiracy' and promoted the idea in his newspaper. Many of the articles refer to the 'Protocols'. Apparently he retracted his views before his death but the views he expressed obviously had some following not only in the United States but also in other countries such as the UK. Indeed the final third of the book contains a sort of ragbag of letters from various people on this theme which makes only tangential reference to the 'Protocols'.

Most people with some knowledge of the field know that the 'Protocols' are a forgery - there is really no need to labour this point. They are apparently loosely plagiarised from an earlier historical work. The book purports to offer readers an opportunity to decide for themselves though how one could do this without supporting material is anyone's guess.

The actual 'Protocols', I would have to say, are the literary equivalent of eating dry biscuits, whatever you may think of their content. I found it very hard to discern any pattern in them other than the rather naive idea that Jews spend all their time planning to take over the world. It rather reminds me of the joke about the Jew who came upon another Jew in Berlin in 1939 reading the Nazi newspaper: 'Der Stürmer'. When he asked why the first Jew replied that reading Jewish papers depressed him with all the troubles they were suffering. When he opened the pages of 'Der Stürmer' things were much rosier - apparently Jews were taking over the world!

Bearing in mind that the 'Protocols' first appeared over 100 years ago, to take them seriously you would have to believe both the conspiracy theory - which like all other conspiracy theories is a mixture of half truths and innuendo - and then believe, as the 'Protocols' themselves suggest, that Jews are willing to wait for generations for their dream to come true. Frankly after the Holocaust this is all pretty sick stuff and the only way to derive any understanding from this book is to see just what was in the minds of so many people in the first half of the last century - not least the Nazis.

Apparently this book is a best seller in Arab countries, for obvious, if sad, reasons. Some argue that this book should be banned - should such a thing be possible, which it is not. I am not an advocate of this point of view - the Nazis were very good at deciding what people should and should not read and that really says it all in my view. I am sure if people want to read this book they will but frankly there are better things to do with your time.