Aren't you the one who throws a hissy fit when you think someone has plagiarized someone else's work? Yet here you are trumpeting a particularly infamous act of plagiarism.
The author of the Protocols was the head of the Paris branch of the Russian secret police. If you know his name, you should give him credit for his work when you quote him. Isn't that the way it works?
Did you know that this anti-Semitic Russian thug plagiarized a work of fiction written by the French author Maurice Joly?
Did you know that the original Protocols was written in French, and that it contains spelling errors, grammatical awkwardness, and a number of typical Russian-language structures that divulge the identity of the author?
Did you know Maurice Joly's novel,
Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu had nothing to do with Jews? Joly was, in fact attacking Napoleon III and his policies.
Did you know that Philip Graves, a British journalist, compared Joly's novel with the Protocols and found over 160 passages that were nearly word for word?
Did you know that the Protocols inspired Hitler and his Nazi henchmen? Hitler referred to the Protocols in
Mein Kampf and in his speeches. Joseph Goebbels distributed the Protocols widely.
Did you know that later in the century, the Protocols became a bestseller in the Muslim world? The Palestinian Islamic group Hamas has made excerpts of the Protocols actual articles of its charter. There is not one Muslim country that has not published or distributed the Protocols, even in recent years.
The fact that you embrace this anti-Semitic work of fiction, this
Hoax of Hate, as your bible speaks volumes to the credibility, or lack of it, in everything you say.
Hugo Valentin, lecturer in history at the University of Upsala in Sweden, characterized the Protocols in his 1936 study Anti-Semitism, Historically and Critically Examined as "the greatest forgery of the century."
Father Pierre Charles, Professor of Theology at the Jesuit College in Louvain, France, stated in a 1938 essay: "It has been proved that these ‘Protocols’ are a fraud, a clumsy plagiarism. . . made for the purpose of rendering the Jews odious..."
In 1942, several prominent historians, including Carl Becker of Cornell, Sydney Fay and William Langer of Harvard, and Allan Nevins and Cariton J. H. Hayes of Columbia, introduced Professor John Shelton Curtiss’ ‘An Appraisal of the Protocols of Zion" with their endorsement of his findings as "completely destructive of the historicity of the Protocols and as establishing beyond doubt the fact that they are rank and pernicious forgeries."
In 1961 Richard Helms, then Assistant Director of the CIA, stated at a Senate subcommittee hearing: "The Russians have a long tradition in the art of forgery. More than 60 years ago the Czarist intelligence service concocted and peddled a confection called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
In August of 1964 a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a report repudiating the Protocols, to which Senators Thomas J. Dodd and Kenneth B. Keating appended the following: "Every age and country has had its share of fabricated ‘historic’ documents which have been foisted on an unsuspecting public for some malign purpose. . . One of the most notorious and most durable of these is the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion.’."
In 1935 a Swiss judge, presiding at a trial of two Swiss National Socialists charged with circulating the Protocols, wrote:
I hope that one day there will come a time when no one will any longer comprehend how in the year 1935 almost a dozen fully sensible and reasonable men could for fourteen days torment their brains before a court of Berne over the authenticity or lack of authenticity of these so-called Protocols... that, for all the harm they have already caused and may yet cause, are nothing but ridiculous nonsense.
Unfortunately, the judge’s hope has not yet been fully realized. There are still those anti-Semites and their willing audiences who remain ready to circulate and believe this fantasy of hate.Aren't you the one who throws a hissy fit when you... (