Back close to the beginning of this century, around 1901 or
so, a book first was published containing the text of what became
generally known as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The
publisher was a Russian academic, Professor Sergei Nilus. Nilus himself
allegedly had obtained The Protocols from a Russian official, who had
obtained the text from a patriotic Russian noblewoman, who in turn had
purchased the material from a Jew in Paris about 15 years earlier.

The Protocols purports to be a collection of minutes or reports of
meetings held by the leaders of the world Jewish community, at which
they summarize the progress they had made to that time in their quest
for world subversion, world ownership, and world power and outline their
plans for continuing the process in the future. They talk about gaining
control of the banking systems of various countries, about fomenting
wars and revolutions to weaken and destroy Gentile power, about
corrupting music and art and education, about subverting various Gentile
institutions, about taking over the press everywhere and controlling the
flow of information to the masses, about undermining the family and
bringing family values into disrepute, and so on. The Elders of Zion
really are a satanic bunch of schemers. Reading The Protocols makes
one's flesh crawl.

We should remember that when The Protocols began circulating in Russia
in the first decade of this century, that country had not yet fallen
victim to Jewish Bolshevism, but that wasn't for lack of trying on the
part of the Jews. The Jews were generally recognized as a dangerously
subversive element in Russia, as the schemers and stringpullers behind
every attempt to damage or upset the established order in Russia, and so
Professor Nilus' publication of The Protocols found a ready market among
the Russian public. After the Jewish Bolshevik revolution of 1917
overthrew the Russian government and established a communist
dictatorship in Russia, anyone found with a copy of The Protocols was
liable to be summarily shot. The text already had been translated into a
dozen other languages and distributed far and wide outside Russia,
however. Since then it has been published in virtually every language
which has a printed form and has been read by tens of millions of people
around the world.

The Jews have been claiming hysterically since The Protocols first
appeared that the text is "a forgery." I guess that's their
way of saying that it's not what it purports to be: namely, the actual
minutes of meetings of Jewish leaders discussing their plans for world
domination. The great American industrialist and automaker Henry Ford
was very strongly impressed by The Protocols and helped circulate the
text in the United States. When told by newspaper reporters in 1921
about the Jews' claims that The Protocols was "a forgery," Mr. Ford
responded that all he could say about the material was that it fit what
was actually happening in the world and had been happening ever since
the The Protocols first appeared in print.

Of course, what Mr. Ford had especially in mind when he made that remark
were two momentous things which had happened during the previous decade.
One was the Jews' success in taking over Russia and imposing communism
on the Russians, and the other was the recently ended First World War: a
horribly fratricidal and senseless war, which had destroyed the old
order in Europe, had spilled the blood of millions of the best
Europeans, and had weakened all of Europe's long-established
institutions, leaving every European country open to all manner of
social, political, and cultural ills -- in particular, to the further
spread of communism.

Well, Henry Ford was a very hard-headed, practical sort of man, and it's
easy to understand his attitude. He had no way of knowing whether or not
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was actually what it
purported to be, but he was quite impressed by the fact that the plan
for world subversion and domination by the Jews outlined in the book
seemed to be happening pretty much as described.

I'll go a step further than Henry Ford was willing to go in assessing
The Protocols. I think that they very likely are not what they purport
to be. In the first place the text of The Protocols doesn't ring true.
It's too straightforward, too open. It doesn't use the sort of
deceptive, weasel-word, self-justifying language that Jews customarily
use in expressing themselves, even to one another. When a group of
Jewish leaders get together to discuss their plans for the destruction of a host nation, they don't use straightforward expressions such as

"encouraging miscegenation" and "leading the goyim to the slaughter."
They use weasel-expressions, such as "building tolerance," "increasing
diversity," and "eliminating inequality."

In the second place, it's difficult for me to imagine the head Jews
laying out such a complete, self-contained, and pat explanation of what
they're up to. It's just too convenient for those of us who aim at
alerting our people as to what the Jews' intentions are and then putting
a monkey wrench in their gears.

I wouldn't call The Protocols "a forgery," as the Jews do whenever the
book is mentioned. I'm inclined to believe Professor Nilus was an astute
observer of the Jews and also was a patriot. He wanted to warn the
Russian people of what the Jews were planning to do to them, and so he
imagined how the Jews' plan might look if it were all laid out in
straightforward language. I believe that he wrote the text he published,
but that he believed it was a reasonably accurate description of what
the Jews actually were doing. And the reason that The Protocols ended up
being translated into hundreds of languages and read by millions of
people is that many people, like Henry Ford, saw that they fitted what
was happening.

- Dr. William Pierce.

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