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Article: Russian Jews are trapped amid hatred. (growing antisemitism in Russia not helped by US limits on immigration of Russian Jews and problems with settling in Israel) (Column)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
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The myth of a world Jewish conspiracy has a long and bloody history. It obtained its classical form in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forgery created by the Russian secret police and originally printed in 1903 in an anti-Semitic daily in St. Petersburg. Before the 1917 revolution, it was reprinted many times in Russian - and later in most European languages. It became an instrument of Nazi propaganda. In the United States before World War II, the idea of a Jewish conspiracy was promoted by Henry Ford, among others.
Now Protocols has returned to its homeland. In the past several years it has been printed by many Russian newspapers, magazines and book ...