The Post-Partisan Emporium

  American Pravda: Political Conspiracies and the French Revolution  Ron Unz   Audio Player A few weeks ago I published  a long article  on the  Protocols of the Elders of Zion , reviewing the available evidence on that notorious document of the very early twentieth century and attempting to evaluate its credibility and provenance. My ultimate verdict was rather hum-drum. I concluded that the work was likely fictional, but probably reflected a widespread quiet understanding of the enormous hidden influence of Jewish groups across Europe, whether as bankers, political advisors, or revolutionaries. A couple of generations earlier, the popular novels of  Benjamin Disraeli , the very influential Jewish-born British Prime Minister, had made exactly that sort of claim, with a character representing  Lord Rothschild  explaining that a network of Jews operating from behind the scenes secretly dominated most of Europe’s major governments. These notion...