Category: Protocols of the Elders of Zion

‘Protocols’ tackles racist book

Video of the Week: PROTOCOLS OF ZION THINKFILM $29.99 If you hold any illusions about the level of blind stupidity, paranoia and hatred in the air, here and abroad, “Protocols of Zion” will cure you. Director Marc Levin (“Slam”), surprised and dismayed by the lunatic fringe reaction to Sept. 11 — that it was a Jewish conspiracy — began to wonder how such a noxious idea came about. His investigation led him to that bible for anti-Semites, the fraudulent “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The book was concocted in Russia at the end of the 19th century by the

How one book has lived on — and fired up bigots everywhere

Protocols of Zion: Documentary. Directed by Marc Levin. (Not rated. 95 minutes. At the Opera Plaza in San Francisco; opens Nov. 18 elsewhere in the Bay Area.) If you hold any illusions about the level of blind stupidity, paranoia and hatred in the air, here and abroad, “Protocols of Zion” will cure you. Director Mark Levin (“Slam”), surprised and dismayed by the lunatic fringe reaction to Sept. 11 — that it was a Jewish conspiracy — began to wonder how such a noxious idea came about. His investigation led him to that bible for anti-Semites, the fraudulent “Protocols of the

Hooked on a crooked book

An antisemitic fraud born a century ago wins new converts U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 26, 2002 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020826/misc/26zion.htm Last summer, a front-page column in the state-run Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram revealed a Jewish plot to destroy Islam and Christianity. Radio Islam, a Web site run by a failed Moroccan revolutionary, has 24 chapters on the plot, along with photos of “Jews who run America” (including Madeleine Albright, raised Catholic but with Jewish roots). The charter of Palestinian terror group Hamas cites the plot as well: “With their money formed secret societies . . . in different parts of the