ILLUSTRATIONS Arthur Fujita
1) 1897: PLANNING THE DOMAIN
O 1st World Zionist Congress took place in Basel (Switzerland), with Jews from all over the world discussing the creation of their own state. The meeting was convened by journalist and activist Theodor Herzl, one of the pioneers in defending the existence of a country for Jews. According to the text of Protocolsthe goal of the meeting would be more ambitious: world domination.
2) 1905: ONCE PERSECUTED…
Sergei Nilus, mystic and adviser to the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, published The Big in the Smallquoting a secret document: You Protocols of the Sages in Zion. According to Nilus, the Russian secret police (Okhrana) obtained the material in France, proving the intention of the Jews to overthrow czarism in Russia. It was the beginning of Nicholas’s persecution of the Jews in the country.
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3) 1926: FOUNDATION OF EVIL
Imprisoned for three years for attempted coup d’état, Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, political and ideological manifesto that served as the basis for the installation of the 3rd Reich and Nazism in Germany. In the book, Hitler used excerpts from the Protocols to justify the hunt for Jews that took place years later and culminated in the Holocaust.
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4) 1933: GERMAN DISTRIBUTION
It was already common practice for the Nazis to edit and distribute copies of Protocols by Germany, even before they took power. In 1919, there was already an edition of the text on German soil. When they took over the government, they began to use the text systematically to incite hatred of Jews and justify their persecution of them.
5) 2005: EVEN AT THE TWIN TOWERS
The Syrian Ministry of Information authorized the publication of a version that blames the Jews for the attacks of September 11, 2001, In the USA. In the Arab world, by the way, the publication has always been popular. Published in 1988, the manifesto of Hamas, the political and military group that governs Palestine, cites several excerpts from the Protocols. Syria, Turkey, India and Egypt are some of the countries where “updated” editions of the text appeared (and still appear).
6) 1937: PROTOCOLS BRAZILIANS
There was also an edition of the text here. The person responsible for the national version was Gustavo Barroso, a member of the Integralist movement, the Brazilian version of fascism. Since Independence, national conservative sectors considered Jewish conspiracies in important political events in Brazil. Barroso was a recognized anti-Semite and admirer of Nazism.
7) 2005: EXCHANGE OF THE HEAVY
A Mexican edition of Protocols suggests that the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews died under Nazism, would have been bargaining chip so that the Jews could, years later, create the State of Israel. There are no explanations of how and with whom this negotiation would have been made.
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EXPLAINING THE TRUTH
In addition to being false, the text of the Protocols it’s plagiarism
– The “author” was Mathieu Golovinski. In 1898 Tsar Nicholas called on him to blame Russia’s economic and social ills on the Jews. For this, he adapted excerpts from The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu and from the novel Biarritz.
– The text has already been identified as fiction. In 1921, British reporter Philip Graves, of The Times, denied the book in an article. In Switzerland, in 1935, a trial against the Nazis pointed out the farce of the Protocols.
– Henry Ford, founder of Ford, admitted that The International Jew (your version of Protocolspublished in chapters in the journal Dearborn Independentin 1920) was a lie.
– As the myth remains strong, the Holocaust Museum, in New York, held an exhibition in 2006 to denounce the farce of the texts created by Golovinski.
SOURCES Book The Plot – The Secret History of the Protocols of the Sages in Zion, by Will Eisner; websites Holocaust Museum, British, Opera Mundi, adl.com, The New York Times It is BBC News
CONSULTANCY Abraham H. Foxman, Director of the Anti-Defamation League