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The British lefties trying to organize a boycott of Israeli university have a new tool to show the world their devotion to peace and brotherhood, not to mention progressive socialist enlightenment. They are distributing the old czarist forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a standard text in Nazi Germany and ever popular among Counterpunch columnists, Saudi oil sheikhs, and followers of Fred Newman (see item below). [The "Protocols" is supposed to be about a Jewish cabal to control the world. ] Who says? Well, the pro-Palestinian Guardian newspaper in the UK, for one. And Luciana Berger, a former...

An urgent request has been sent to PM Ariel Sharon to bring to the attention of US President Bush the presence of anti-Semitic material in the new Palestinian Authority textbooks . The new PA history books, among other things, present the infamous anti-Semitic forgery produced by Russian police The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an accurate portrayal of the decision of the First Zionist Congress. “There is continued incitement in the PA and it has even intensified, surpassing and solidifying the anti-Semitic line that has been recognized there in recent years,” Minister Natan Sharansky, who sent the information...

I was surprised last year when several Christians mentioned to me a secret conspiracy to control the world. They relayed to me that the leaders of this coup called themselves Illuminati, a powerful group of wealthy and corrupt Jewish leaders. I was astonished as they described the control these Jewish leaders supposedly exerted on worldwide markets, banks, and governments. These Christians pointed out to me certain emblems on currency, the wealth of some members of the Jewish community, and the powerful influence Jewish people have on politicians and the media. My face blushed red with frustration as they talked so...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel would not be able to destroy Iran's nuclear installations with a single air strike as it did in Iraq in 1981 because they are scattered or hidden and intelligence is weak, Israeli and foreign analysts say. Israeli leaders have implied they might use force against Iran if international diplomatic efforts or the threat of sanctions fail to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said this month Israel is "taking measures to defend itself" - a comment that raised concern Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike along the lines of its 1981...

TAMARAC, Fla. — What do you do 25 years after creating a new artistic genre? If you are Will Eisner, you do the same thing again in your late 80's. "A Contract With God," set in the tenements of his Bronx youth and published in 1978, established Mr. Eisner as the father of the graphic novel. Now he has taken the adult comic-book format a step further, with a graphic history that applies his dark, 1930's-style illustrations to real events of a century ago. This latest work, called "The Plot," tells the story behind the creation of "The Protocols of...

A joke that circulated in various forms during the Second World War imagined a confrontation between a Nazi and a Jew. "The Jews are the cause of all of the problems of the world " says the Nazi. The Jew nods sagely and replies: "Yes, the Jews and the bicycle riders." "Why the bicycle riders?" asks the incredulous Nazi. "Why the Jews?" his interlocutor replies. The joke, and its unspoken background of the Holocaust, illustrates the dangers of hate propaganda. It can put wild and dangerous ideas into the minds of otherwise rational people. Rick Salutin's recent article about the...

History's most virulent antisemitic propaganda essay, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," was first published 100 years ago this week. Though the Protocols turned out to be both a notorious plagiarism and a shocking forgery, the essay would exercise a powerful impact upon the modern era, principally as a critical factor in generating the Holocaust. Despite its gross falsehood and the horrors it sparked, the Protocols strikingly continues to be promoted today, most alarmingly in such important institutional settings as the United Nations and Middle Eastern governmental media. The first publication to print the Protocols was the St. Petersburg...

I turned on NPR just now, the morning after the fall of Baghdad, and heard sounds of elegy, tones of regret: a report on the "humanitarian crisis," followed by about ten seconds of doleful segue mood music - oh, woe! It will be fascinating in the days ahead to see how the left plays this rather inconvenient turn of events - the vindication of George W. Bush and his savage blood-for-oil fascist aggression. Footage of joyful crowds in Baghdad, and the Saddam statue going down like the Berlin wall, the women trilling in celebration, and the men whacking Saddam’s head...

I was one of about 75 people, mostly Jews, who gathered outside the Egyptian Embassy in San Francisco on Monday evening, December 2nd, to protest the airing of Horseman Without a Horse on state-run Egyptian Television. The series is based on the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a czarist forgery alleging a Jewish plot to take over the world. However Muhammed Sobhi, the star and producer of the series has presented it as an “historical drama” and denies that it promotes anti-Semitism. Despite the fact that the U.S. State Department contacted Egyptian officials to object to the series...

The Bush administration is beginning to realize that destroying Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq is merely the first step in a needed general reconstruction of the Middle East. In approaching this task it is important the Administration realizes the role anti-Semitism plays in the area's turbulence. Anti-Semitism is the result of the oldest of the world's irrational explanations of why things happen. Like Marxism and Freudianism, it posits one big, simple cause of human behavior that is loosely defined and vague enough that all events, especially malign ones, can be fitted into the theory. Where Marxism used class warfare and...

<p>November 5, 2002 -- Arab Voice, an Arabic-language newspaper published weekly since 1993 from Main Street in Paterson, N.J., appears to be just another one of America's many ethnic publications.</p> <p>Its news pages are replete with items about Palestinian travails and possible war with Iraq. Its featured columnist is James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. Its publisher, Walid Rabah, modestly describes himself as "an activist with the Palestinian Writer's Guild in the United States." Its pages are filled with ads hawking Arab-owned restaurants, travel agencies, real-estate offices, retail stores and doctors' offices.</p>

Egyptian state television will broadcast a 30-part series based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous anti-Semitic tract the show's creator and star says "reveals the Zionist schemes to seize Palestine." This week, Egyptian television began advertising "Horseman Without a Horse," which it said will be broadcast during the first half of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month and traditionally prime time for serialized television specials. Ramadan starts in early November.