Propaganda at a Capitol Checkpoint: A Faked Antisemitic Text Resurfaces

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was created by the Russian secret police in 1903. It’s an infamous antisemitic forgery & favorite of Hitler. So you can understand the alarm of a Congressional staffer when he saw it on a Capitol Police officer’s desk.

Propaganda at a Capitol Checkpoint: A Faked Antisemitic Text Resurfaces - War on the Rocks
It was 7 p.m. on a Sunday in mid-March, and Zach Fisch was ready to go home. He walked down the marble halls of the Longworth House Office Building, where
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It was 7 p.m. on a Sunday in mid-March, and Zach Fisch was ready to go home. He walked down the marble halls of the Longworth House Office Building, where he worked as chief of staff to New York Rep. Mondaire Jones. As he headed to the big double doors of the exit, he passed a pair of Capitol Police officers guarding the entrance, running the X-ray machine and metal detector, and scrutinizing visitors’ bags and bodies for weapons that could be used to harm members of Congress or their staff. Fisch happened to glance over to a table near the officers’ workspace and was alarmed by what he saw: a dog-eared print-out of the world’s most notorious antisemitic text, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (hereafter The Protocols).

For more than a century, this text, created by the Russian secret police, has been used to advance a powerful and persistent antisemitic myth: that Jews are plotting to take over the world. From Adolf Hitler to Henry Ford, rabid antisemites have championed the fabricated text as a historical document and published it widely. So what is this nearly 120-year-old lie doing in the hands of a Capitol Police officer in 2021?

There are three qualities of the text that are key to its staying power throughout the ages. Its fragmentary composition, simulation of a primary document, and nature as a conspiracy text have helped The Protocols survive the decades and find purchase in disparate cultures and contexts. Echoes of The Protocols can be found in a number of popular conspiracy narratives in the United States today. One such narrative is of particular interest given its appearance in the possession of a Capitol Police officer. “Protocol 10” describes a Jewish plot to manipulate elections and install a puppet president — a narrative similar to the “stop the steal” conspiracy that fueled the attack on the U.S. Capitol in January. Given the nature of The Protocols — and the transcendence of its themes in the rhetoric and ideology of QAnon and the white supremacist movement more broadly — lawmakers and intelligence officials should take a closer look at The Protocols incident and the possibility of a deeper problem within the Capitol Police force.

What Is The Protocols and What Explains its Staying Power?

In 1903, the Russian secret service, the Okhrana, created The Protocols as black propaganda. It purports to be the original documentation of the minutes of a conference of elder Jewish statesmen, who, through a number of meetings, established 24 strategies, or “protocols,” upon which they would conspire to control the world’s governments; dominate and subjugate non-Jews, “the Goyim”; and ultimately create an international super-state.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Jews taking over the world, now rebranded by christofascists and expanded as...

"globalist" conspiracy and the deep state. Still the same racist and paranoid crap they have shoveling for decades.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Thanks for post, but it is about anti-Semitism, so...

..yeah.