AP Notices “Protocols”
Charles Johnson
Sun Apr 23, 2006 at 3:46 pm PDT • Views: 206
The Associated Press actually has a story about antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, although they don’t point out that the book is most popular in Islamic countries: Century-Old Nazi Propaganda Still in Use. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)
WASHINGTON - A century-old forgery used to justify ill-treatment of Jews in Czarist Russia and widely circulated by the Nazis is distributed even today in many languages to stoke hatred of Israel, an exhibit at the Holocaust Museum says.
Colorfully bound editions of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” have appeared recently in Mexico and in Japan, where there are few Jews, says exhibit historian Daniel Greene. High school texts in Syria, Lebanon and schools run by the Palestinian authority use the book as history, he says.
Its 24 chapters profess to record discussions by Jewish leaders of plans to take over the world. Historians have traced parallels in the text to a 19th century French book, directed against supporters of the Emperor Napoleon III, which does not mention Jews.
The newest Arab edition of the book even manages to work in the 9/11 attacks:
In 2005, a new edition of the book was published in Syria and shown at the Cairo International Book Fair. The edition suggests, the museum says, that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were organized by a Jewish conspiracy.
Frank says: