Posted on 10/10/2005 6:06:53 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
In the weeks and months after 9/11, Jews in the US, Europe and even in Israel confronted a series of disturbing questions and assertions concerning an alleged Jewish conspiracy to destroy the World Trade Center.
For American-Jewish filmmaker Mark Levin, the director of the soon-to-be released documentary The Protocols of Zion, inspiration for his latest film came after an encounter he had in a New York City taxi soon after 9/11. His driver, an Egyptian immigrant, made the claim that the Jews had been warned not to go to work at the World Trade Center on the day of the attack. The driver then said that "it's all written in the book," referring to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious forgery created 100 years ago that purported to be the Jews' master plan to rule the world.
As Levin discovered in the course of filming, this notorious conspiracy text has been enjoying a widespread revival in the aftermath of 9/11.
Mixing archival materials and interviews with militant African-Americans, white supremacists and Palestinian-Americans among others, Levin exposes both the history and the current resurgence of the fabrication and distribution of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
In the course of the 90-minute film, Levin meets with the editor of The Arab Voice, a New Jersey-based newspaper that has recently serialized the protocols, and includes clips of The Knight Without A Horse, a 2002 Egyptian film dramatization of the protocols.
Levin also confronts listeners of a radio show hosted by Frankie Welmer, the creator of the anti-Semitic Jew Watch Web site, and he meets with a young prisoner who was a white supremacist and became a born-again Christian. The inmate discusses his belief – and ultimately his disbelief – in Jewish conspiracy theories.
Levin also speaks to American rabbis, Holocaust survivors and representatives of organizations that battle anti-Semitism throughout the documentary. Reaching out for a different perspective, he also stops Orthodox Jews on the street to ask them about what they have heard about the protocols.
"I didn't want to make a scholarly film," Levin told The Jerusalem Post in a phone interview from Los Angeles. "I wanted it to be accessible to young people and to talk about faith and fanaticism in an open manner."
The debut screening of Levin's film in New York last week turned into a controversial event, he said, following his agreement to invite a number of prominent militant African-Americans, including representatives of the Nation of Islam to the screening.
Among those who came to the event was Malik Zulu Shabazz, an organizer of the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Million Man March and an outspoken anti-Semite who has publicly denied the death of any Jews at the World Trade Center.
Following the screening, "There was tremendous tension, but it turned into a fascinating and non-inflammatory Q and A," Levin said. Reasoning with believers in conspiracy theory, Levin acknowledged, was not an easy task.
"The conspiracy mindset can be impenetrable," he said. "It's ultimately impossible to argue with them because it becomes a circular argument."
His own argument for making the film, Levin said, was that it was nevertheless necessary to expose the workings of conspiracy theories both old and new. "My goal was to air it all out," Levin said. "Light is the greatest disinfectant."
A brave soul.
Too bad the Q&A wasn't filmed--it might be good bonus material for the DVD.
Forgery means a copy of the ORIGINAL.
http://www.jewwatch.com/
Don't know about that.
Dan Rather's famous forgery wasn't a copy of an original.
Suppose this book about an Jewish plot to take over the world was true. What's wrong with that?
An arguement could be made that it has already happened because a majority of us are Christian, and Christ was a Jew.
It was not a forgery, it was a fake.
Well said, and very true.
This is taken off their title page. If Stormfront is a hate site, Jew Watch is a hate site.
Certainly a public figure who made such a ridiculous statement would be taken to task by the same journalist who demanded Bill Bennett make amends, no?
for·ger·y ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fôrj-r, fr-) n. pl. for·ger·ies The act of forging, especially the illegal production of something counterfeit. Something counterfeit, forged, or fraudulent. Main Entry: forg·ery Function: noun Inflected Form: plural -er·ies 1 : the act of falsely making, altering, or imitating (as a document or signature) with intent to defraud; also : the crime of committing such an act
That crackpot loon was never taken to task for why he didn't correct his own hatemongering BS in the days following the attacks:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2001-09-12 (September 12, 2001)Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a desert has been training pilots to fly our most modern, sophisticated jumbo jets with such pinpoint accuracy that they are able to hit these three targets without anyone wondering why these planes were so far off path?
Or am I being asked to believe that there were four religious/political fanatics who JUST HAPPENED to be skilled airline pilots who JUST HAPPENED to want to kill themselves today?
Maybe you can find one jumbo jet pilot willing to die for the cause — but FOUR? Ok, maybe you can — I don’t know.
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Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted by a guy from the desert but rather by our own citizens: a couple of ex-military guys who hated the federal government.
From the first minutes of today’s events, I never heard that possibility suggested. Why is that?
Maybe it’s because the A-rabs are much better foils. A key ingredient in getting Americans whipped into a frenzy against a new enemy is the all-important race card. It’s much easier to get us to hate when the object of our hatred doesn’t look like us.
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http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2001-09-15 (September 15, 2001)
PS. Three days ago, I learned from someone at ABC News that ABC had videotape -- an angle of the second plane crashing into the tower -- that showed an F-16 fighter jet trailing the plane at a distance.
I have not shared this with you as I had not personally witnessed that tape myself and did not want to contribute to all the unsubstantiated rumors. It just came across on the TV that the government admitted they did dispatch fighter jets when they knew the planes were off course.
From this point, I will pass on any censored information to those of you in the mainstream media who are being blocked from reporting.
Is it becoming more clear now that the plane that went down in Pennsylvania was shot down to prevent it from attacking its destination?
The truth is harrowing, unbearable -- but it must be told to us. A free people cannot make an informed decision if they are kept in the dark. Let's hear ALL the truth NOW.
Did this Goebbels wannabe, Lord Ho Ho's ghost of American born Nazi broadcaster Lord Haw Haw, ever discuss this "ABC footage" in his film? Or apologize for making such a damning claim?
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