The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Book - A Gentle Cynic

BOOK ONE — INTRODUCTION
of supposed “common sense” — until it is too late — is the best way; but if that wasn’t work, the
more confusing for The Adversary, the better: “the Jews have always counted confidently on the
fact that if the whole truth were told in one comprehensive utterance, no one would believe it.” 66/
Jewish writers have said: “The Protocols [are] actually a compilation of various anti-
Semitic writings from the late nineteenth century, claiming to be a record of a conclave of
Jewish leaders from throughout the world who met in Switzerland sometime around the
seventeenth century. During this meeting their leaders plotted to take over the world and destroy
all other religions. The “Protocols” were collected and published in one volume by the Czar’s
secret police and used to justify pogroms against Jews.” 67/ Another Jewish Historian says “Czar
Nicholas II commissioned Nilus, a monk, to come up with something damming to the Jews.” 68/
“Henry Ford began publishing the Dearborn Independent, a newspaper that
printed every conceivable staple of contemporary anti-Semitism, including the
Protocols of the learned Elders of Zion. The hate that filled the columns of the
Independent was some of the most vile anti-Semitism ever to be published in this
country [America]. Ford himself was forthright about the purpose of his little
newspaper, claiming that Bolsheviks and Jews were the two main threats to the
United States, and he was embarked upon a crusade to rid the country of them
both. In his view, “Jewish power” attacked the American economy from above
through the Rothschilds, while Marx and Trotsky subverted it from below, all at
the behest of the `international Jew.’ Henry Ford and his anti-Semitic hate-sheet
illustrated that point perfectly: one of his friends was Rabbi Leo Franklin, who
puzzled Ford by refusing to join in his `crusade against the international Jew.’” 69/
During the 1930’s, “the infamous Coughlin [New York City’s Father Charles Coughlin]
called for a `Christian front’ that would not fear being called anti-Semitic “because...the term
anti-Semitic is only a pat phrase in Communism’s glossary of attacks.” He went on to say that
the authenticity of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was irrelevant, since `We cannot
ignore the news value of their strongly prophetic nature.’” at p. 37. And, in the 1940’s,
Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York allowed the “Silver Shirts” (a neo-fascist American
anti-Semitic organization), to distribute copies of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
under his congressional frank (or, postage-free mailings to constituents), plus pamphlets about
“Fight For Freedom” (which was a prominent pre-World War II interventionist group), calling it
Independent, August 14, 1920. Mr. Ford encourages us many times in his Works to have that
“straight and narrow” mind, to keep within the limits of good moral behavior. Ford, Int’l Jew.
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NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE IT. See: Ford, The Int’l Jew, Vol. III, “Jewish Influences in
American Life,” Chp. LX, “B’nai B’rith Leader Discusses the Jews,” p. 167; Dearborn
Independent, May 14, 1921.
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POGROMS AGAINST THE JEWS. Ernest Wolkman, A Legacy of Hate: Anti-Semitism in
America (New York, Franklin Watts, Pub., 1982), p. 10, at footnote.
68 CZAR NICHOLAS II COMMISSIONED NILUS, A MONK. Max I. Dimont, Jews, God, and
History (New York, Signet/Times Mirror, 1962), p. 321. No sources are given, but Mr. Dimont
says it “is so fantastic that the truth itself is hardly believable.” id., at 321. Does this mean to say:
`It is true, but....’. (Ed.).
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CRUSADE AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL JEW. Wolkman, A Legacy of Hate at p. 32-
33.
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