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279 of 392 found the following review helpful:
Know what you are reading Dec 12, 1999
By DDDDDDD
Let us get a few facts straight: This book was forged by the Czarist secret police Ochrana beginning this century and published by a crazy priest, Sergius Nilus, in 1905 (just in time for the pogroms). It is a crude, anti-semitic rehash of an excellent 1864 book by Maurice Joly's "Les Dialogues aux Enfers" - a dialogue in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli, in which Machiavelli explains to a horrified Montesquieu how a liberal democracy with all the trappings (separations of power, a free press, etc) can be subverted step by step into a despotic regime. This was a not-so-veiled critique of the autocratic reign of Napoleon III. There is, alas, no English translation of this book, although there are French and German versions (that I know of). If you are the sort of troglodyte who believes in world-wide conspiracies, then any advice I may have for you is useless. If you are not, and you are just curious about a book which has had such a profound impact, I'd cautiously recommend reading it - bearing in mind that these lies contributed more than any other single book to the slaughter of millions of Jews in this century.
14 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 An Interesting Read Jan 22, 2011
By C. Severance
I read the book and watched the dvd by Marc Levin (called Protocols of Zion). I thought both were worth my time. The dvd provides clear evidence of what some in our world believe and shows the passions that are yoked to those convictions. There are people who will immediately discount and reject Levin's presentation, but, taken at face value, it clearly presents a collection of straight forward experiences and, honestly, saddens me. We are a deeply torn humanity.
As a researcher, Protocols was a book I needed to go through. While presenting itself as "Jewish," I'm amazed by the similarities I find, in outlook and method, with any number of anti-democratic totalitarian systems, with American Progressivism, Statist Secular Socialism, and even with Islamic political fundamentalism. One could replace many Jewish references with some other entity and recognize historic examples of what the Protocols convey, likely because the book presents the workings of evil. Evil finds its home in the human heart, in the human condition. Thus, no single people group escapes its touch and the Protocols can apply to many throughout history. Assume it was not of Jewish authorship and origination. The author would need to be intimate with the workings of evil him or her self to create the work. We meet ourselves.
I realize the book's fame is anchored to some Islamic promotion, yet the concept of "freedom" found on pages 51, 65, and 97 (in my copy), for example, is a similar concept, a similar view of freedom, as that found in Islam (freedom according to Shariah, harmony, and as outlined by Islamic thinkers like Seyyid Qutb). So, before one throws stones, one should examine his or her own system and see how Protocols speaks to it.
Not everyone needs to read the Protocols, and those who do should, perhaps, labor to see its wider implications.
79 of 123 found the following review helpful:
 If a forgery, where's the original? Nov 14, 2007
By V S
"Developed a $6 OBD1 Handheld in 1986"
There is something to be said of this book. It is nowhere NEAR the complete edition (There are more versions of this than I can count, almost all are edited and shortened considerably).
"The evil Jew" being responsible or not, take the "jew" out of it, and you'll see this book of the supposed meeting is actually a book of predictions that has come true in every respect.
If nothing else, it is a 95% accurate representation of today's western society...a godless, obsessed with entertainment, mindless, thoughtless, dumbed-down people that have another class of people over them. They have no hope, but are so dumb that they pay for their own destruction - socially, economically, intellectually.
Even if the book is "fake" (it IS a book, isnt it? How can it be fake? Is it invisible?) everything in it has come true.
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3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
It is what it is- an antisemitic concoction of last Czar's secret police Apr 13, 2011
By Alex P.
This doesn't really deserve a review: this book has only historic and political interest. Helps to understand political climate of virulent antisemitism which penetrated life in Europe in late 19th-early 20th century and culminated in Holocaust at mid 20th century. Government of Nicholas II - last Russian Czar, and he personally were antisemitic and tried to save increasingly bankrupt regime by inciting extreme nationalistic and antisemitic feelings in the populace. Otherwise book has no merit.
12 of 19 found the following review helpful:
A forgery but interesting from the historic view point Jun 29, 2009
By Fabio Araujo
"Historian"
The Protocols were first published in 1903 by Pavel Krushevan, an instigator of the Kishinew pogrom, in his Russian newspaper called Znamia. The book is usually composed a certain number of protocols, from 24 to 27. This is definitively an interesting work, if we take into account the historic aspects. In my view, it is a shallow anacronism to judge a book today because of the mentality of some people who lived in Russia 100 years ago.
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