WHEN IN DOUBT...BLAME A JEW!

It has been said that if you tell a big lie often enough, it begins to take on a certain ring of truth.  Said in another way, human perception is such that many believe that where a lot of smoke appears, there must be a fire.

Such is the case of the dissemination of one of the most horrendous forgeries of all time – “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” sometimes called, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and also, “The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion.”  By whatever name chosen, it is a collection of untruths, distortions, misrepresentations, and downright lies from start to finish.  When I think of that piece of manufactured history, born of a man crazed by his desire to concoct untruths on a grand and international scale, I am reminded of my days as a manufacturer’s representative for a jewelry firm and the category in the index of the jeweler’s sourcebook, which listing never ceased to amaze me:  “Manufacturers of Genuine Antique Jewelry.” 

In brief, the fictional Protocols purports to report the machinations of a group of powerful Zionist plotters who through greed, trickery, and filthy manipulations, plan to destroy Christian civilization, and thereby to take over the entire world.

Although the fiction, written by a White Russian living in Paris in 1897, brought to Moscow by Sergei Nilus, began and was distributed in Russia, its venomous message was soon to be translated into 45 languages and circulated throughout the world.  Through the intercession, money, power, and influence of one man, the forgery became the second most circulated book in the world, only surpassed by the Holy Bible.  Central to, and munificently financing that project in a worldwide distribution of anti-Semitism, was none other than the father of the Tin Lizzie, Henry Ford.  Unfortunately, in actuality, in many parts of the world the Protocols did become a bible of hate, and even today, it is taught, as fact, to school children in Arab countries to bolster and perpetuate their parent’s legacy of total hatred for the Jews.  Should we be surprised at watching Arab children throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers?  Influenced by the Protocols, why shouldn’t they?

Mr. Ford had, through other anti-Semitic ghostwritten articles, in his publication The Dearborn Independent, collected those articles into book form.  It was called “The International Jew,” and purported to be an expose of Jewish financiers and bankers, who through evil machinations and monopolies, controlled the world’s cultural, commercial and media enterprises, and, “was the conscious enemy of all that Anglo-Saxons mean by civilization.”