David Icke: Difference between revisions

''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' is an anti-Semitic [[literary forgery]],<ref name="holocaust-museum-protocols">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007058|title=Protocols of the Elders of Zion |website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|access-date=8 August 2020}}</ref> probably written under the direction of the [[Okhrana|Russian secret police]] in Paris, purporting to reveal a conspiracy by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. It was exposed as a forgery in 1920 by [[Lucien Wolf]] and the following year by [[Philip Graves]] in ''The Times''. Nevertheless, the ''Protocols'' forgery was embraced byin [[Adolf Hitler]] as authentic in's [[Mein Kampf]] as authentic, and ultimately became a part of the Nazi propaganda effort to justify persecution of the Jews.<ref name=Hitler1924>{{Citation|first=Adolf|last=Hitler|title=Mein Kampf|chapter=XI: Nation and Race|volume=I|pages=307–08|title-link=Mein Kampf }}.</ref><ref name=Levin>Nora Levin, ''The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 1933–1945''. Quoting from [https://web.archive.org/web/20021001121141/http://ddickerson.igc.org/hitler-protokollen.html IGC.org]</ref> Interest in it was renewed by the American far right in the 1950s.{{sfn |Barkun |2003 |pp=50, 145–146}} Interest in it was further spread by conspiracy groups on the Internet.<ref>Juliane Wetzel, "''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' on the internet: How radical political groups are networked via anti-Semitic conspiracy theories," in Esther Webman (ed.), ''The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth'', New York: Routledge, 2012 (147–160), p. 148.</ref> According to [[Michael Barkun]], Icke's reliance on the ''Protocols'' in ''The Robots' Rebellion'' is "the first of a number of instances in which Icke moves into the dangerous terrain of antisemitism".{{sfn |Barkun |2003 |p=104}}<ref>Also see Norman Simms, "Anti-Semitism: A Psychopathological Disease," in Jerry S. Piven, Chris Boyd, Henry W. Lawton (eds.), ''Judaism and Genocide: Psychological Undercurrents of History'', Volume IV, Lincoln, NE: Writers Club Press, 2002, [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=eFFsEYvBEZgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA30 30ff].</ref>