David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense@davereaboi
So last night I finally sat down and read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
As you likely know, it is supposed to be meeting minutes of a secret cabal of evil, world-conquering and powerful Jews. But it is actually merely an infamous late 19th Century forgery created by the Tsarist authorities in Russia (and yes, they’ve been doing information warfare by villainizing Jews since back then).
It’s been popular since then, and translated into every language. In the US, Henry Ford was obsessed with it, and suggested it to his employees. It’s long been one of the most popular books in Arabic, of course. In Germany, we know what they did with it.
But reading through it last night, I was struck by two things, both related:
(1) how much online discourse is merely just copypasta Protocols, down to memes like “Goyim are Cattle” and the limitless, cartoonish alleged bloodlust of Jews and Israelis.
And (2) how obviously, ridiculously fake it is. Protocols is not even an IQ test—if you have any blood pumping to your brain, you should not be fooled by it. Even so, that millions of people have allowed their mental faculties to be put to one side like this is a vivid example of what a totalizing mind virus Jew-hatred is.
*This is the cover of a 1934 American printing. And needless to say, “possession of these documents in Soviet Russia” was NOT punishable by “immediate death.” But these guys knew—long before the social media age—that you can just make shit up.
