About the Book
First published in English in 1920, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is one of the most controversial books of all time. It outlines an alleged Judeo-Masonic conspiracy for world domination and was almost immediately dismissed as a "forgery" not only by the Jewish community but by most official sources as well.
The origins and authorship of the Protocols are shrouded in doubt. We know they were first published in Russian in 1905 by Sergei Nilus, who claims they were given to him by a friend who stole them from a secret Freemason meeting in France.
But what is most striking about the Protocols is their incredible predictive power. In 1921 Henry Ford said, "The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are 16 years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time." This is as true today as it was a century ago.
For The Protocols: Centenary Edition, Simon Harris has taken the best of the three original translations by George Shanks, Natalie de Borgory and Victor Marsden and created a tighter more comprehensible version for the 21st century.
For anyone who wants to understand how today's world got into its current state, The Protocols: Centenary Edition really is essential reading.
Review :
"Whence come this uncanny note of prophecy, prophecy in part fulfilled, in parts far gone in the way of fulfillment? Have we been struggling these tragic years to . . . extirpate the secret organization of German world dominion only to find underneath it, another, more dangerous because more secret? Have we . . . escaped a Pax Germanica only to fall into a Pax Judaeica?"
The Times, London, May 8th, 1920.
"A document forged to defame a people."
The American Hebrew
"A clumsy forgery."
Lucien Wolf in The Spectator, London, June 12th, 1920.
"Upon that much-vexed subject the authenticity of . . . The Protocols of Zion we shall not enter, except to say that if the document is a forgery, as alleged, then it is one of the most remarkable in the history of literature."
The Spectator, London, October 16th, 1920.
"Those who feel libeled by the Protocols have the most obvious remedy in the world; all they have to do is to ruse and denounce the policy of them, instead of denying the authorship . . . But when you come to read them how can any reasonable man deny the truth of what is contained in them?
Norman Jaques, M.P., in Canadian House of Commons, July 9th, 1943.
"On the one hand, the authenticity of this document cannot be proved; on the other hand, the efforts made by some writers, principally Jewish, to show it to be a forgery do not carry conviction to many serious minds."
The Rev. Denny Fahey, C.S.Sp., B.A., D.D., 1939.
"Whosoever was the mind that conceived them possessed a knowledge of human nature, of history, and of statecraft which is dazzling in its brilliant completeness, and terrible in the objects to which it turns its power. It is too terribly real for fiction, too well sustained for speculation, too deep in its
knowledge of the secret springs of life for forgery."
The Dearborn Independent, July 10th, 1920.
"The United Nations is Zionism. It is the super government mentioned many times in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, promulgated between 1897 and 1905."
Henry Klein, New York, Jewish Lawyer, in Zionism Rules the World, 1948.
"The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit it now."
Henry Ford in the New York World, February 17th, 1921.
"In the desires of a terrible and formidable sect, you have only reached the first stages of the plans it has formed for that general Revolution which is to overthrow all thrones, all altars, annihilate all property, efface all law, and end by dissolving all society."
Abbé Barruel (1797) writing on the Anti-Christian Conspiracy.
"Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately it is bound to spread in one form or another all over Europe and the whole world, as it is organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality and whose object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things."
British Government White Paper, Russia No. 1 (1919).
"There is now definite evidence that Bolshevism is an international movement controlled by Jews; communications are passing between the leaders in America, France, Russia and England, with a view to concerted action."
Directorate of Intelligence, Home Office, Scotland Yard, London, in a Monthly Report to Foreign Embassies, 16th July, 1919.
