Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Protocols of Zion

Probably one of the most interesting aspects of 9-11 is why it happened. Ask the average American why it happened and they might say, "because they hate America." From here, media outlets and politicians don't seem to get into the specifics like why they hate America. Sure we hear about how there are schools in the middle east who indoctrinate young Arabs with an extremist interpretation of the Koran, turning them into Islamic fundamentalist militants. But we never hear about something else that is probably more likely to influence anti-American sentiments in the Arab world: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

The Protocols in the western world is known as the epitome of anti-semetic literature. Published sometime in the early 1900's, it purports to describe a Jewish plot to achieve world domination. Because of its amazing insight on how any organized group, Jewish or not, could take over the world, it is, in my opinion, the "best" conspiracy theory of all time and therefore one of the most dangerous pieces of widely available literature in existance. When notorious anti-semite Henry Ford got ahold of them, he gave them out to his customers for free. And when Hitler read them, The Protocols would surely make their way into Nazi anti-semetic propaganda.

Even though numerous independent investigations have repeatedly proven The Protocols to be a hoax and a plagiarism of a variety of earlier fictional stories, the book is still widely distributed across the world. Especially in the middle east. It is no doubt a large reason why many Arabs despise Jews - or as they so often refer to them, the "Zionists." That hatred of the Jews also carries over to hatred of America because the same Arabs believe that the United States is a Jewish nation. Not because most American's aren't Jewish, but because there are many Jewish people in America that are in positions of power, wheather that be in politics, business, or entertainment. They see America as just another Israel.

No doubt there are countless Jews in positions of power. Even though Jews only make up less than 2% of the American population, we'll find that there are two serving on the U. S. Supreme Court. Fifteen out of the one hundred senators in the senate are Jewish. The current and former chairman of the Federal Reserve (Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan) are both Jewish. Of all Nobel Prize winners, twenty-three percent have been Jewish. And of course, the list of Jews in entertainment reads like a who's who in Hollywood. So when someone reads this who isn't Jewish, they might come to two conclusions: 1) Damn I wish I was Jewish. 2) I'm jealous - there must be a conspiracy.

I think one thing is for certain - whatever the Jews are doing - they're doing it better than most people. This, unfortunately, makes some people frustrated. Feeling inferior - especially to a minority group, threatens some people. Some of these people grab hold of literature like The Protocols and embrace it as if it were an answer. I see The Protocols like a religious text - very ambiguous and therefore open to individual interpretation. I think this is the one of the reasons why The Protocols is rarely covered on the media - because many Americans would read them - and some would actually believe. (The skeptic would say The Protocols are never covered because the media is owned and operated by the Jews.)

Unfortunately, many Americans have recently become anti-semites because of exposure to conspiracy theories on 9-11, many of which lead to The Protocols. This resurgence in domestic anti-semitism is documented in the film Protocols of Zion by Marc Levin. Though from the perspective of a Jew, Levin seems to approach the subject as balanced as possible. He's curious to know more about a conspiracy theory being spread which says all Jews (allegedly 4,000 of them) who worked at the World Trade Centers didn't go to work that day. A cabbie Levin rides with cites The Protocols as further evidence.

Thus begins Levin's journey to understand more about these Protocols and the people who believe in them. From Arab Americans to Black and White Nationalists - they all probably hate one another but agree on one thing: Zionist pigs are taking over the world. Levin even engages in some dialogue with the founder of the Jew Watch website. The film is a brief dip into the rabbit hole of skepticism, though we're brought back to reality and the hard truth when Levin cites the deaths of a few Jews who did in fact die in the twin towers on 9-11. One of them was only discovered from DNA tests of a bone fragment found on a building rooftop a couple blocks away.

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