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nuing to peddle this crude and
vicious nonsense impede and
prejudice the nation's fight
against the communist menace.
The subcommittee believes that
the peddlers of the "Protocols"
are peddlers of un-American
prejudice who spread hate and
dissension among the American
people. Falsely using the guise
of fighting communism, they,
like the communists who set
class against class, would set
religion against religion. Both
would subvert the American
system.
The 1964 Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee document has special significance in
its treatment of the totality of anti-
Semitic venom. Its importance lies not
only in exposing the "Protocols" but
also in denouncing the spreading of
libel against Benjamin Franklin. It has
been falsified as the "Franklin Pro-
phecy" and has been proven part of the
anti-Semitic hate campaignin this
country. The Senate report contains the
following important admonitions in the
quest for truth:
In 1948 John S. Curtiss, pro-
fessor of history at Columbia
University, published a most
thorough and authoritative
analysis of the "Protocols"
under the title "An Appraisal of
the Protocols of Zion." His study,
sponsored and endorsed by a
committee of leading American
historians, concluded that the
"Protocols" have no claim to
authenticity. Professor Curtiss'
findings were abstracted in 1948
by the Library of Congress and
the subcommittee feels it would
be useful to reprint those fin-
dings in this report:
design to writing. This does not
the Negev — not once has the
about the "Protocols" and anti-
make sense.
Security Council voted to con-
Semitism, including the following:
was
clearly
7. It
demn these acts of P.L.O. terror
"The Truth About the Protocols of
demonstrated by a British jour-
against Jews or Israel. Add, for
Zion, A Complete Expose," by Herman
nalist (non-Jewish) that large
good measure, the acts against
Bernstein, published by Covici-Friede,
portions of the "Protocols" were
Jews at synagogues, airports,
New York 1935.
plagarized from a book written
restaurants and schools in
"A Short History of Anti-Semitism"
to discredit the government of
Istanbul, Rome, Vienna, Paris,
by Vanberto Morais, published by W.W.
Napoleon III. Moreover, the
Antwerp and other cities. The
Dorton & Co., New York, 1976.
French volume, it has been
Security Council's response in
The record of the defaming is corn-
shown, was once the property of
each case? Silence.
• plete and there is cause for pride that
the Russian political police; and
Is this merely another
the exposing of an outrageous fabrica-
there is other evidence to in-
demonstration of the "looking
tion is part of the historic policy of this
dicate that the "Protocols"
glass" world of the U.N., which
nation. the sad part is that such expos-
originated with and were used
can eulogize the chief field of-
ing of the work of sick minds becomes
by the Russian political poice.
ficer of international terrorism
an all-too-frequent necessity.
8. Christian theologians
who has now died by the sword
have branded the "Protocols" as
by which he lived? Easy enough,
forgeries.
but surely some explanation is
UN's Sad Record
9. At a recent trial in Bern,
due from democratic nations
Maintaining
Switzerland, the court declared
like England, France, West Ger-
the "Protocols" to be forgeries.
many, Italy and Japan, which
Hatred
in his "Anti-Semitism,
voted for the resolution, and
he anti-Israel record of the
even the United States, which
Historically and Critically Ex-
United 1\; ations fanning of
amined" (1936) Hugo Valentin,
chose to abstain rather than to
hatred also retains the obliga-
lecturer in history at the Univer-
veto.
tion to return to the world organiza-
sity of Upsala in Sweden
Paradoxically, all of these
tion's basic and original priciples. The
characterizes the "Protocols" as
countries have experienced the
ideals imbedded in the founding of the
"The Greatest Forgery of the
tragic consquences of interna-
United Nations were for justice for all.
tional terrorist groups allied
Century" and adds: "One need
Instead there is an accumulation of
with the P.L.O. As for the rest —
not be a specialist in historical
venom. It is toward Israel especially
research or have any extensive
the Soviet Union, China,
that injustice predominates there.
knowledge of matters Jewish to
Algeria, etc. — who wold expect
Therefore the importance of a letter
any better?
see through the fraudulent
the New York Times published from
nature of the "Protocols" after
The lesson of Orwell, lest-we
Theodore Ellenoff, president of the
forget his teling premonition of
a cursory glance."
American Jewish Committee. The let-
In his foreword to the Valen-
"UN-speak," is not simply that
ter was appropriately titled "Terrorism
tin work, Herbert L. Willett, pro-
the terrorist is now eulogized as
Through the UN Looking Glass."
fessor emeritus in the Depart-
victim and the true victims
Ellenoff wrote:
denied a eulogy, but that this
ment of Semitic Languages and
Literature, University of
perversity becomes part of the
One cannot help but be
instrument by which terrorism
Chicago, calls the "Protocols"
reminded of "Alice in
"one of the stupidest forgeries of
will create yet more victims. If
Wonderland" after reading your
the democratic nations of the
all literary history."
report of April 26 that the
More recently, in an article
world cannot tell the difference
United Nations Security Council
between terrorist and victim,
entitled "The Subliterature of
voted to condemn Israel's "ag-
Hate in America?' Southwest
then surely we are lost.
gression" against Tunsia in the
Review (vol. XXXVII, No. 3, sum-
killings of the P.L.O. leader
So that there be a return to the high
mer 1952), published by
Khalil al-Waxir, a.k.a. Abu
principles of the United Nations, it is
Southern Methodist University
Jihad.
important that these accumulated facts
Press, the author, Margaret L.
Think of it: schoolchildren at
should not be forgotten. It is an
Hartley, writes as follows of the
Ma'alot, athletes in Munich, bus
obligatory way of assuring justice via
"Protocols" and another well-
riders in Haifa, Jerusalem and
the world organization.
known forgery the so-called
"Benjamin Franklin Prophecy":
"Two 'authorities' often cited
(by anti-Semitic writers) the
`Protocols of the Learned Elders
of Zion' and the 'Benjamin
X APbKOS
Franklin Prophecy, hold their
place in the subliterature in
spite of the fact that again and
4AME SWINE
again they have been proved
bogus. These false authorities
might be called the classics of
anti-Semitism. Reference to the
`Protocols' may be found in
almost any item of hate
literature examined?'
It is impossible for a fair-
minded person of any common
sense not to see that the "Pro-
tocols" are the fictional product
of a warped mind and that for
years they have been and still
are the chief staple of the anti-
Jewish pamphleteer.
Research on a high level is in
evidence in the senatorial "Protocols"
report which branded the vicious
writings as a "fabricated historic" docu-
ment, is accompanied by authoritative Soviet Jews protested the Soviet Union's emigration policy during the Reagan-Gorbachev
commentaries and detailed records summit. The Jews gathered outside the Lenin Library in Moscow.
T
.
1. The "Protocols" are an
anonymous document. No
evidence has ever been
presented that the "Protocols"
were the product of Jewish
leaders.
2. It was alleged by their
publisher, Nilus, that the
documents were stolen by a
woman and were given to Rus-
sians, who first published them.
No one has ever personally iden-
tified the woman.
3. The Russians, who first
published the "Protocols;' ad-
mitted that they did not see the
original manuscript, but came
into possession only of copies of
the original.
4. The first publisher in book
form, Nilus, a Russian, admitted
that he could not prove the
authenticity of the document.
5. Internal evidence dis-
closes that references and
language used in the "Pro-
tocols," supposed to have been
done in 1897, are inconsistent
with that date.
6. Those who uphold the
"Protocols" as authentic con-
tend that they were designed by
very able but scheming Jews
who, on the other hand, were ex-
tremely stupid in reducing their
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