The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion ({{lang-ru|????????? ???????? ???????? or ???????? ?????????}}) is a fraudulent document purporting to describe a plan to achieve Jewish global domination.

Contemporary use

Among Muslim nations and groups after 1948

:See also Arabs and anti-Semitism

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Many Arab governments fund the publication of new printings of the Protocols, and teach them in their schools as historical fact. The Protocols have been accepted as fact by many Islamic extremist organizations, such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Al Qaeda.

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Arab - Hamas - Islamic Jihad - Al Qaeda

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In the past, the Protocols were publicly recommended by Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, one of the President Arifs of Iraq, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Colonel Moammar Qaddafi of Libya, among other political and intellectual leaders of the Arab world, and in March 1970, the Protocols were reported to be the top 'nonfiction' bestseller in Lebanon.

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Gamal Abdel Nasser - Anwar Sadat - Egypt - Iraq - Faisal - Saudi Arabia - Moammar Qaddafi - Libya - Lebanon

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Egypt

The Egyptian state-owned publisher al-Ahram editorialized in 1995 in a foreword to a translation of Shimon Peres' book The New Middle East:

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Al-Ahram - 1995 - Shimon Peres

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:"When The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were discovered, some 200 years ago, and translated in various languages, including Arabic, the World Zionist Organization attempted to deny the existence of the plot, and claimed forgery. The Zionists even endeavored to purchase all the existing copies, in order to prevent their circulation. But today, Shimon Peres proves unequivocally that the Protocols are authentic, and that they tell the truth."

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An article in the Egyptian state-owned newspaper al-Akhbar on February 3, 2002 stated:

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Al-Akhbar - February 3 - 2002

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:"All the evils that currently affect the world are the doings of Zionism. This is not surprising, because the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which were established by their wise men more than a century ago, are proceeding according to a meticulous and precise plan and time schedule, and they are proof that even though they are a minority, their goal is to rule the world and the entire human race."

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In November 2002, Egypt, despite being bound by a 1979 treaty preventing "incitement" against Israel, allowed their state-owned television network to produce A Horseman Without a Horse (Fares Bela Gewad), a 41 part "historical drama" largely based on the Protocols, which ran on Egyptian television as well as numerous Arabic satellite television channels for a month.

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November - 2002 - Egypt - 1979 - Treaty - Israel - Television network - Historical drama - Satellite television

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Iran

Translations of the Protocols are extremely popular in Iran. The first edition was issued during the summer of 1978 at the time of the Islamic revolution. In 1985 a new edition of the Protocols was printed and widely distributed by the Islamic Propagation Organization, International Relations Department in Tehran. The Astaneh-ye Qods Razavi (Shrine of Imam Reza) Foundation in Mashhad, Iran, one of the wealthiest institutions in Iran, financed publication of the Protocols in 1994. Parts of the Protocols were published by the daily Jomhouri-ye Eslami in 1994, under the heading The Smell of Blood, Zionist Schemes. Sobh, a radical Islamic monthly, published excerpts from the Protocols under the heading The text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion for establishing the Jewish global rule in the December 1998–January 1999 issue, illustrated with a caricature of the Jewish snake swallowing the globe.

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Iran - Islamic revolution - Islamic Propagation Organization - Tehran - Astaneh-ye Qods Razavi - Shrine of Imam Reza - Mashhad, Iran - Jomhouri-ye Eslami - Sobh - Radical Islam - Jew

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Iranian writer and researcher Ali Baqeri, who 'researched' the Protocols, finds their plan for world domination to be merely part of an even more grandiose scheme, saying in Sobh in 1999:

Related Topics:
Ali Baqeri - World domination - Sobh

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:"The ultimate goal of the Jews ... after conquering the globe ... is to extract from the hands of the Lord many stars and galaxies".

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian schoolbooks contain explicit summaries of the Protocols as factual:

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: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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:These are secret resolutions, most probably of the aforementioned Basel congress. They were discovered in the nineteenth century. The Jews tried to deny them, but there was ample evidence proving their authenticity and that they were issued by the elders of Zion. The Protocols can be summarized in the following points:

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:1. Upsetting the foundations of the world's present society and its systems, in order to enable Zionism to have a monopoly of world government.

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:2. Eliminating nationalities and religions, especially the Christian nations.

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:3. Striving to increase corruption among the present regimes in Europe, as Zionism believes in their corruption and collapse.

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:4. Controlling the media of publication, propaganda and the press, using gold for stirring up disturbances, seducing people by means of lust and spreading wantonness.

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:The cogent proof of the authenticity of these resolutions, as well as of the hellish Jewish schemes included therein, is the carrying out of many of those schemes, intrigues and conspiracies that are found in them. Anyone who reads them - and they were published in the nineteenth century - grasps today to what extent much of what is found there has been realized (See: The Danger of World Jewry, by Abdullah al-Tall, pp. 140-141 ).

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:::Source: 'Hadith and Islamic Culture', Grade 10, (2001) pp. 103–104 http://www.edume.org/reports/10/38.htm

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Hamas

The Charter of Hamas explicitly refers to the Protocols, and promotes them as factual. Article 32 of the Hamas Charter states:

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:The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm

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The Charter also makes several references to Freemasons as one of the "secret societies" controlled by "Zionists".

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Palestinian National Authority

On February 20, 2005, the Mufti of Jerusalem Ikrima Sabri appeared on Al-Majd Saudi Arabian satellite TV to comment on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister. Sabri stated "Anyone who studies The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and specifically the Talmud will discover that one of the goals of these Protocols is to cause confusion in the world and to undermine security throughout the world." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-7-1506190,00.html

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February 20 - 2005 - Mufti - Jerusalem - Ikrima Sabri - Al-Majd - Saudi Arabia - Rafik Hariri - Lebanese - Talmud

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On May 19, 2005, The New York Times reported that PA Minister of Information Nabil Shaath removed from his ministry?s web site an Arabic translation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/19/international/middleeast/19protocols.html?

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May 19 - New York Times - Nabil Shaath

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Other contemporary appearances

The American retail chain, Wal-Mart, was criticized for selling The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on its website with a description that suggested it might be genuine. It was withdrawn from sale in September 2004, as 'a business decision'. It is distributed in the United States by some Palestinian student groups on college campuses, and by Louis Farrakhan's "Nation of Islam". In 2002, the New Jersey based Arabic-language newspaper The Arab Voice published excerpts from the Protocols as true; in his defense, editor and publisher Walid Rabah protested (in Arabic) that "some major writers in the Arab nation accept the truth of the book." {{ref|doc_film}}

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American - Retail chain - Wal-Mart - Website - September - 2004 - Palestinian - College campus - Louis Farrakhan - Nation of Islam - 2002 - New Jersey - The Arab Voice - Walid Rabah

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The document is generally accepted as truthful in large parts of Asia and South America. In Japan, where many people regard the Protocols as genuine, there have even been "self-help" books published, expressing admiration for the Jewish conspiracy portrayed in the Protocols and suggesting that the Japanese should attempt to emulate it to become as powerful as Jews, or more so. The publication of this document has also seen a resurgence in Russia and other republics of the former Soviet Union among the new generation of national socialists.

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Asia - South America - Japan - Russia - Soviet Union - National socialists

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In Greece the Protocols have had multiple publications in recent decades, along with various commentaries depending on who published the book and what is their point of view. The Neo-Nazi group Hrisi Avgi ("Golden Dawn") consider the book to be an accurate document and distribute their edition to their members.

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Greece - Neo-Nazi - Hrisi Avgi

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The final work of cartoonist Will Eisner, published after his death in 2005, was a graphic novel titled ', detailing the document's complex history.

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Cartoonist - Will Eisner - 2005 - Graphic novel

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The New Zealand National Front sells copies published by their former national secretary, Kerry Bolton. Bolton also publishes (and the NZNF sells) a book entitled "The Protocols of Zion in Context" that seeks to refute the idea that the Protocols are a forgery.

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New Zealand National Front - Kerry Bolton

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