re: #3 Great White Snark

BTW, the whole Muslim bogeyman/fifth column thing is nothing more than repurposed antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish Bolshevism:

Jewish Bolshevism also known as Judeo-Bolshevism is a conspiracy theory that the Jews were at the origin of the Russian Revolution and held dominant power among Bolsheviks. Similarly the Jewish Communism theory implies that Jews have been dominating the Communist movements in the world. […]

Sounds strangely familiar if you just change a few words, doesn’t it?

The CTs were preceded by the serialized publication of portions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a Russian newspaper in 1903, with the full version published two years later as an appendix to a book. As with the excerpt above, you’ll notice many familiar themes in the one below: The Antichrist-Satan-Armageddon connection, the secret plot to rule the world, controlling the media, etc.

Aside from it being morally wrong, this scapegoating is a significant part of the reason I have such an interest in learning about antisemitism.

THE ORIGIN OF A LIE

In 1903, portions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were serialized in a Russian newspaper, Znamya (The Banner). The version of the Protocols that has endured and has been translated into dozens of languages, however, was first published in Russia in 1905 as an appendix to The Great in the Small: The Coming of the Anti-Christ and the Rule of Satan on Earth, by Russian writer and mystic Sergei Nilus.

Although the exact origin of the Protocols is unknown, its intent was to portray Jews as conspirators against the state. In 24 chapters, or protocols, allegedly minutes from meetings of Jewish leaders, the Protocols “describes” the “secret plans” of Jews to rule the world by manipulating the economy, controlling the media, and fostering religious conflict.

Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, anti-Bolshevik migrs brought the Protocols to the West. Soon after, editions circulated across Europe, the United States, South America, and Japan. An Arabic translation first appeared in the 1920s.

Beginning in 1920, auto magnate Henry Ford’s newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, published a series of articles based in part on the Protocols. The International Jew, the book that included this series, was translated into at least 16 languages. Both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, later the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, praised Ford and The International Jew. […]

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007058. Accessed on 23 April 2015.