Chapter One
INTRODUCTION
WHY THE "NEW" ANTI SEMITISM IS AN ATTACK ON AMERICA
A few years ago, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles asked me to interview radical Islamic clerics during a reporting trip I was making through Syria, Jordan, and Gaza. He suggested I ask them about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti Semitic forgery invented by the intelligence service of the Russian czar in 1895, and whether they believed that Jews had a plan to conquer the world, as it asserted. I thought he was joking. "Just ask the question," Rabbi Cooper insisted. "See what they say."
The results, which I published in a monograph with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, were stunning.[1] Not only did every one of the people I asked believe in the anti Semitic lies put forward in the Protocols; some offered to pull out their own copy just to show me that it was real. None questioned the authenticity of th ...
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