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The opening plot shows an Egyptian child, Nagib (the father of Hafez, the main figure), being kidnapped by a Turkish nobleman who wants to raise him in his home. Nagib grows to be an army officer, and he and Malak (the nobleman's daughter) are in love......

'Atallah Abu Al-Subh: I return to this book – The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - time and again. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the faith that every Jew harbors in his heart. Al-'Aqqad once called this a "hellish" book, in his introduction to the translation by Mahmoud Khalifa Al-Tunisi, which is the most famous translation, which fate had me read in 1971 or 1972. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Their Biblical and Talmudic Roots. I'd like to read just one paragraph, before the producer tells me that our time is up. "It...

It’s apparently the season for revivals of the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion or variations thereof. This is the time worn paranoia that the Jews, while a miniscule fraction of the world’s population, nonetheless run it. The unspoken (and unexamined) implication is that the non-Jewish remainder of the human race is too stupid or too pathetic to thwart these designs. Obviously center stage in this conspiracy pageant for the moment is occupied by Walt and Mearsheimer’s new book The Israel Lobby, which is about the Hebrew puppeteers who pull the strings that make Bush and Cheney jump, and...

Saudi Wealth Fuels Global Jihadism Posted Oct. 27, 2003 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Generations of Muslims in the Middle East have been raised on the anti-Western, anti-Semitic theologies of Ayatollah Khomeini and in the Saudi Wahhabi system of madrassas (religious schools). This foundation set the stage for the rise of Osama bin Laden. Doaa 'Amer is a professional TV anchor who hosts Muslim Woman Magazine on IQRAA TV, a satellite channel broadcasting throughout the Arab world. As she tells it, her job is to educate the next generation of children to be "true Muslims." Readers accustomed to hearing Islam described...

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Hadassah Ben-Itto, a former Israeli judge, honorary president and past president of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. She is the author of the book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, now published in nine languages. Hadassah Ben-Itto FP: Hadassah Ben-Itto, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Ben-Itto: Thank you for inviting me. FP: What inspired you to write this book? Ben-Itto: During my years on the bench I was occasionally invited to represent Israel in various international bodies (UN, UNESCO), and like many Israeli delegates and representatives, I...

Christians are Jews' best friends Toronto Sun Sat, August 12, 2006 By MICHAEL COREN One of the most difficult things about spending time in Israel is returning home, as I did two weeks ago. As dangerous as life might be in the Jewish state at the moment, daily existence is layered in significance. Then it's back to North America, where the trivial is made to seem profound. I refer to Mel Gibson's drunken stupidity when he made various repugnant comments about Jewish people. As a Roman Catholic with three Jewish grandparents, and someone who worries every day about the...

Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group that started war on Israel July 12, trusts in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Hezbollah insists the text, which has twice proven to be an 1895 forgery by Tsarist officials in Paris, is the transcript of the First Zionist Congress in Basle Switzerland in 1897. So potent is this blood libel--and so well matched to Hezbollah's lethal designs--that the terror group collaborated with Iran to produce a Protocols television series for its Al Manar TV. Broadcast in Lebanon during Ramadan in October 2003, the programs were then aired in Iran in 2004. Among...

27 January 2006, 18:07 Public Chamber members propose to ban The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russia Moscow, January 27, Interfax - Members of Russia's Public Chamber and human rights activists have proposed that a list be compiled of extremist literature whose dissemination should be formally banned. According to the report of an Interfax correspondent, together with Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov, they considered the proposed amendments enhancing the criminal and administrative responsibility for extremist activity at a round-table conference in Moscow. ‘The most productive result of today's...

This month marks the 100 year anniversary of the first printing of the infamous anti-Semitic forgery, "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." The anniversary will be commemorated throughout the world including a two day conference at Boston University's Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies. Tonight in New York, HBO Films will premier the documentary "Protocols of Zion" by Marc Levin's Blowback Productions (www.blowbackproductions.com). The documentary will be screened later in the month in selected theatres throughout America. "The Protocols" are frequently referred to in the Arab and Iranian press connecting Jewish conspiracies to among other things: assassinations of Arab leaders;...

Why would the University of California Press (UCP) be publishing a sequel to a book that several distinguished historians have compared to the notorious czarist forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? It is by an author whose previous works were eliminated from the curriculum by the Toronto School Board because they were “anti-Semitic.” This author has also been characterized as a “writer celebrated by neo-Nazi groups for his Holocaust revisionism…,” and as a purveyor of “crackpot ideas, some of them mirrored almost verbatim in the propaganda put out by neo-Nazis….” Imagine if a university press were publishing an...

Last week, the Palestinian Authority made headlines in Israel when it deleted from its Web site a link to a notorious anti-Semitic tract. The same century-old tract is the target of the last major book by the late Will Eisner, the inventor of the graphic novel. It's the subject of a documentarythat debuted this year at the Sundance Film Festival. And it's inspired a new satire of anti-Semitism by two editors of Heeb, the Jewish humor magazine. What is it about an old, bigoted screed that merits such attention? The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has been the Jew-hater's...

The British lefties trying to organize a boycott of Israeli university have a new tool to show the world their devotion to peace and brotherhood, not to mention progressive socialist enlightenment. They are distributing the old czarist forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a standard text in Nazi Germany and ever popular among Counterpunch columnists, Saudi oil sheikhs, and followers of Fred Newman (see item below). [The "Protocols" is supposed to be about a Jewish cabal to control the world. ] Who says? Well, the pro-Palestinian Guardian newspaper in the UK, for one. And Luciana Berger, a former...

An urgent request has been sent to PM Ariel Sharon to bring to the attention of US President Bush the presence of anti-Semitic material in the new Palestinian Authority textbooks . The new PA history books, among other things, present the infamous anti-Semitic forgery produced by Russian police The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an accurate portrayal of the decision of the First Zionist Congress. “There is continued incitement in the PA and it has even intensified, surpassing and solidifying the anti-Semitic line that has been recognized there in recent years,” Minister Natan Sharansky, who sent the information...

I was surprised last year when several Christians mentioned to me a secret conspiracy to control the world. They relayed to me that the leaders of this coup called themselves Illuminati, a powerful group of wealthy and corrupt Jewish leaders. I was astonished as they described the control these Jewish leaders supposedly exerted on worldwide markets, banks, and governments. These Christians pointed out to me certain emblems on currency, the wealth of some members of the Jewish community, and the powerful influence Jewish people have on politicians and the media. My face blushed red with frustration as they talked so...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel would not be able to destroy Iran's nuclear installations with a single air strike as it did in Iraq in 1981 because they are scattered or hidden and intelligence is weak, Israeli and foreign analysts say. Israeli leaders have implied they might use force against Iran if international diplomatic efforts or the threat of sanctions fail to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said this month Israel is "taking measures to defend itself" - a comment that raised concern Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike along the lines of its 1981...

TAMARAC, Fla. — What do you do 25 years after creating a new artistic genre? If you are Will Eisner, you do the same thing again in your late 80's. "A Contract With God," set in the tenements of his Bronx youth and published in 1978, established Mr. Eisner as the father of the graphic novel. Now he has taken the adult comic-book format a step further, with a graphic history that applies his dark, 1930's-style illustrations to real events of a century ago. This latest work, called "The Plot," tells the story behind the creation of "The Protocols of...

A joke that circulated in various forms during the Second World War imagined a confrontation between a Nazi and a Jew. "The Jews are the cause of all of the problems of the world " says the Nazi. The Jew nods sagely and replies: "Yes, the Jews and the bicycle riders." "Why the bicycle riders?" asks the incredulous Nazi. "Why the Jews?" his interlocutor replies. The joke, and its unspoken background of the Holocaust, illustrates the dangers of hate propaganda. It can put wild and dangerous ideas into the minds of otherwise rational people. Rick Salutin's recent article about the...

History's most virulent antisemitic propaganda essay, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," was first published 100 years ago this week. Though the Protocols turned out to be both a notorious plagiarism and a shocking forgery, the essay would exercise a powerful impact upon the modern era, principally as a critical factor in generating the Holocaust. Despite its gross falsehood and the horrors it sparked, the Protocols strikingly continues to be promoted today, most alarmingly in such important institutional settings as the United Nations and Middle Eastern governmental media. The first publication to print the Protocols was the St. Petersburg...

I turned on NPR just now, the morning after the fall of Baghdad, and heard sounds of elegy, tones of regret: a report on the "humanitarian crisis," followed by about ten seconds of doleful segue mood music - oh, woe! It will be fascinating in the days ahead to see how the left plays this rather inconvenient turn of events - the vindication of George W. Bush and his savage blood-for-oil fascist aggression. Footage of joyful crowds in Baghdad, and the Saddam statue going down like the Berlin wall, the women trilling in celebration, and the men whacking Saddam’s head...

I was one of about 75 people, mostly Jews, who gathered outside the Egyptian Embassy in San Francisco on Monday evening, December 2nd, to protest the airing of Horseman Without a Horse on state-run Egyptian Television. The series is based on the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a czarist forgery alleging a Jewish plot to take over the world. However Muhammed Sobhi, the star and producer of the series has presented it as an “historical drama” and denies that it promotes anti-Semitism. Despite the fact that the U.S. State Department contacted Egyptian officials to object to the series...

The Bush administration is beginning to realize that destroying Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq is merely the first step in a needed general reconstruction of the Middle East. In approaching this task it is important the Administration realizes the role anti-Semitism plays in the area's turbulence. Anti-Semitism is the result of the oldest of the world's irrational explanations of why things happen. Like Marxism and Freudianism, it posits one big, simple cause of human behavior that is loosely defined and vague enough that all events, especially malign ones, can be fitted into the theory. Where Marxism used class warfare and...

<p>November 5, 2002 -- Arab Voice, an Arabic-language newspaper published weekly since 1993 from Main Street in Paterson, N.J., appears to be just another one of America's many ethnic publications.</p> <p>Its news pages are replete with items about Palestinian travails and possible war with Iraq. Its featured columnist is James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. Its publisher, Walid Rabah, modestly describes himself as "an activist with the Palestinian Writer's Guild in the United States." Its pages are filled with ads hawking Arab-owned restaurants, travel agencies, real-estate offices, retail stores and doctors' offices.</p>

Egyptian state television will broadcast a 30-part series based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous anti-Semitic tract the show's creator and star says "reveals the Zionist schemes to seize Palestine." This week, Egyptian television began advertising "Horseman Without a Horse," which it said will be broadcast during the first half of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month and traditionally prime time for serialized television specials. Ramadan starts in early November.