Old Antisemitic forgery alive and well in the PA:
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Op-ed published by Palestinian news agency Ma'an:
"One
wonders if the Jews belong to some other kind of human species... From
where does all this evil and destructive energy derive?
Do all the other nations deserve all this evil and hostility, just so that Jews may control them?"
PA Imam on PA TV:
"Our enemies [the Jews] say: ... 'We must strive to destroy the moral values so that we can easily rule the world.'
That's in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
The Palestinian news agency Ma'an continues to include Antisemitic
content on its website. Currently the op-ed section features an article
presenting the old Antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a true document delineating the Jews' plan to subjugate the world.
Opinion piece by Walid Shomaly:
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are
a kind of plan formulated by the Jews to infiltrate the world and take
it over. While many Jewish leaders claim that they (the Protocols) are a
forgery and one of the greatest political fabrications of the modern
era, others confirm that they are true and that they are the most
dangerous plot of global domination that history has ever known."
Having described the content of some of the protocols, the writer demonizes all Jews:
"Now, after this quick review of a few of
these protocols, one wonders if the Jews belong to some other kind of
human species, different from other nations. From where does all this
evil and destructive energy derive? Do all the other nations deserve all
this evil and hostility, just so that Jews may control them? Do all
nations other than Jews really have clouded minds?"
And he wonders about the extent of Jewish world domination already today:
"Have most of the things that appear in
the Protocols been implemented in the West and in the East? Did the idea
of a Jewish world government begin to be carried out towards the end of
the last century? And does the US rule the world today in the name of
the new world order for the benefit of the Jews, in accordance with
these Protocols? Are we on the brink of the establishment of an evident
Jewish world government? Until we have answers to these questions and
ponderings - as well as others - we say, 'May Allah help us, we the
children of Palestine...'"
When describing how one of the protocols "calls to crush religious
authority, especially the papacy," Shomaly condemns Christian Zionists
in the US as "Zionists in the guise of Christians":
"We see how approximately eighty million
Zionist Christians in the United States itself give Israel their
absolute support, claiming [to belong to] Christianity while they in
fact have no connection with it, for these people are Zionists in the
guise of Christians. Thus they can achieve two goals: The first, to
smash Christian values and perceptions from within; and the second, to
support Zionism by legitimizing its occupation and settling of
Palestine."
According to the writer, the Protocols include among other things the following:
"The first protocol calls for the spread
of anarchy and wars... [and] contains plans to spread corruption in the
world in order to establish firm Jewish rule... Jews are to entice men
through liquor, debauchery, and women, and to use fraud, bribery, and
betrayal to achieve their goals."
"The second protocol calls for a takeover
of government, education, and the press. The fourth protocol calls for a
takeover of trade and the destruction of religion."
"While the seventh protocol calls to instigate global wars, the ninth
lays out plans to destroy moral values and dispatch agents."
"As far as education is concerned, the sixteenth protocol calls for
corrupting it so as to reduce gentiles to creatures incapable of
independent thought. Regarding religion, the seventeenth protocol calls
to crush religious authority, especially the papacy."
"As regards impoverishing the nations and starving them so as to control
them, the twentieth protocol calls for drowning countries in debts, and
then forcing them to borrow from Jewish wealth at high interest rates,
so that these countries will remain subservient and under their
control."
A longer excerpt of this article from Ma'an appears below.
PA TV recently broadcast a statement by a Palestinian Imam who likewise referred to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an authentic Jewish work. He said the "enemies" intend to corrupt Muslims with wine and women, which is a tactic set down in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
"Our enemies say:
'A glass of wine and a pretty woman can harm Muhammad's nation more than a thousand canons.
We must strive to destroy the moral values so that we can easily rule the world.'
That's in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
When Palestinian Media Watch recently documented Antisemitic content on Ma'an's website, Ma'an was quick to remove it, promising to "re-examine the policy of publishing readers' articles to avoid the occurrence of similar mistakes."
However, the very next day, Ma'an posted another op-ed, this time one denying the Holocaust. This was also removed following PMW's exposure.
Ma'an News Agency is part of Ma'an Network, which on its website
currently lists as some of its "partners and donors": The European
Commission (the EU), UNDP, UNESCO, the Government of Denmark, the
Government of the Netherlands, UKaid. It is unclear from the Ma'an
website which of these donors still fund them today.
PMW documents the existence in the PA of the libel of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
PMW documents Demonization of Jew/Israelis
The following is a longer excerpt of the article on Ma'an's
website referring to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a true
document:
Headline: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Where do we stand as far as they are concerned?" By Dr. Walid Shomaly
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion consist
of 24 protocols that are a kind of plan formulated by the Jews to
infiltrate the world and take it over. While many Jewish leaders claim
that they (the Protocols) are a forgery and one of the greatest
political fabrications of the modern era, others confirm that they are
true and that they are the most dangerous plot of global domination that
history has ever known.
These protocols appeared in Russia in 1901 in the Znamya newspaper in
St. Petersburg, at the request of Russian Czar Nicolas II. The full
version was published in 1905 by a man named Sergei Nilus. Each of these
protocols has its strategic goals that Jews try to achieve. Since
discussing each protocol in depth is beyond the scope of this work, I
shall shed light on [only] a few of the central ideas in some of these
protocols, not all of them.
The first protocol calls for the spread of anarchy and wars. It says:
'There are more people with bad instincts than with noble instincts, and
therefore the best results for world domination can be achieved through
violence and terror, rather than through academic discourse. Might
makes right'...
Also, the first protocol contains plans to spread corruption in the
world in order to establish firm Jewish rule that will reconstruct the
order shattered by liberalism. Jews are to entice men through liquor,
debauchery, and women, and to use fraud, bribery, and betrayal to
achieve their goals.
The second protocol calls for a takeover of government, education, and
the press. The fourth protocol calls for a takeover of trade and the
destruction of religion - especially Christianity - and to overthrow the
papacy, for they conspire to dissociate the concept of God from
Christian nations and leave them absorbed in manufacturing, trade, and
material matters. This is indeed what we see in western countries where
to a great degree materialism prevails over their societies.
While the seventh protocol calls to instigate global wars, the ninth
lays out plans to destroy moral values and dispatch agents. The
thirteenth protocol calls to deaden awareness among the masses, and the
fifteenth protocol calls for coups d'état and setting up secret cells.
Thus, according to their claims, the Jews will gain control through a number of sudden coups d'état that
will occur simultaneously in all countries. They will seize control
quickly, as governments announce that they are no longer capable of
ruling the people.
We clearly see the pompous attitude of Jews towards goyim, that
is gentiles, people who are not Jewish, in the following quotation from
the fifteenth protocol: 'From the difference between the fertileness of
our minds and those of the goyim, the advantages God bestowed
upon us ever since He took us as His chosen people become clear, and the
high level of humanity that was given us becomes apparent. As for the goyim,
their minds are stagnant. They have eyes but do not see what is before
them. They do not invent and do not create [anything] other than perhaps
material things. From this we learn that nature itself has destined us
to lead the world and rule it.'
As far as education is concerned, the sixteenth protocol calls for
corrupting it so as to reduce gentiles to creatures incapable of
independent thought. Regarding religion, the seventeenth protocol calls
to crush religious authority, especially the papacy. It says: 'When our
time comes to utterly crush the papacy, a hidden hand will give the sign
for an attack, and when people fling themselves against the Vatican, we
will appear as its defenders to stop the massacres. Thus we shall
penetrate the depths of this court, and there will be no power on earth
capable of removing us from it, until we will have destroyed papal rule.
The king of Israel will become the world's real pope, patriarch of the
international church.'
In this context we see how approximately eighty million Zionist
Christians in the United States itself give Israel their absolute
support, claiming [to belong to] Christianity while they in fact have no
connection with it, for these people are Zionists in the guise of
Christians. Thus they can achieve two goals: The first, to smash
Christian values and perceptions from within; and the second, to support
Zionism by legitimizing its occupation and settling of Palestine. Their
pretext is that the Day of Judgment will come after the Battle of
Armageddon, i.e., Mount Megiddo overlooking Marj ibn Amer (i.e., the
Jezreel Valley, ed.). According to their belief, all Jews in the world
are to assemble in Palestine for that battle, and at its conclusion
44,000 [Jews] will remain.
As regards impoverishing the nations and starving them so as to control
them, the twentieth protocol calls for drowning countries in debts, and
then forcing them to borrow from Jewish wealth at high interest rates,
so that these countries will remain subservient and under their control.
Now, after this quick review of a few of these protocols, one wonders if
the Jews belong to some other kind of human species, different from
other nations. From where does all this evil and destructive energy
derive? Do all the other nations deserve all this evil and hostility,
just so that Jews may control them? Do all nations other than Jews
really have clouded minds?
We do not deny the Jews' many contributions in science and general
thought that have served humanity for ages... (Here Shomaly cites Philo,
Maimonides, Spinoza, Freud, Marx, Kafka, Chagall, Disraeli, Einstein,
and Jacques Derrida, ed.)... If we were to review all the Jews'
contributions in all fields, we would need many pages, just as [we would
need] for non-Jewish thinkers, geniuses and scientists.
We must note that Jews, especially since the beginning of the second
half of the nineteenth century, persisted in their claim that European
nations hated them and had contempt for them because they were Semites
and not Aryans, something that led them to invent a new term,
'anti-Semite' in order to take advantage of that term to achieve their
goals and succeed in their conspiracies. The Protocols were designed to
organize these goals and categorize them so that they would not go off
course in future generations. This makes us wonder: Have most of the
things that appear in the Protocols been implemented in the west and in
the east? Did the idea of a Jewish world government begin to be carried
out towards the end of the last century? And does the US rule the world
today in the name of the new world order for the benefit of the Jews, in
accordance with these Protocols? Are we on the brink of the
establishment of an evident Jewish world government?
Until we have answers to these questions and ponderings - as well as
others - we say, 'May Allah help us, we the children of Palestine bent
under the yoke of the cruelest settler occupation that modern history
has known; this people that the Zionist movement's leaders want to
subject to the 'illusions of their Protocols' with all their evil ideas
that contradict human nature of the inhabitants of this planet."
[Ma'an, Feb. 9, 2013]
The following is the transcript of the Palestinian Imam's statement:
Imam Salah Al-Mitan:
"Our enemies say: 'A glass of wine and a pretty woman can harm Muhammad's nation more than a thousand canons.
We must strive to destroy the moral values so that we can easily rule the world.'
That's in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
[PA TV (Fatah), Feb. 3, 2012;
Speak Up co-produced with PYALARA (EU-funded NGO)]
Note: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an Antisemitic
forgery describing how Jews allegedly plan to subjugate the world under
Jewish rule. It was published in Russia in 1903 and translated into
multiple languages. In 1921 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was exposed as a false document.
PYALARA, the producer of this program, is funded by NDC.
NDC's international donors include: the European Union, the World Bank,
the Agence Fran?aise de D?veloppement that works on behalf of the French
government, a donor consortium of Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands
and Sweden, the Islamic Development Bank, the United Palestinian
Appeal, and the Palestinian private organization the Welfare
Association. [NDC website, accessed Dec. 20, 2012] |
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