Dismantling the Big Lie the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

by Mark Weitzman and Steven Leonard Jacobs

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881257850
• ISBN13: 9780881257854
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Ktav Publishing House
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

elder protocol, not math, not education, not health read dismantling the lie

when I ordered the other book, I did not know what I was getting into. I was intrested in health, math ect. Not at all what I expected. I should have looked up the full meaning of protocol, as used. . The big lie makes more sense.

Deserving of the very widest audience possible

The collaborative work of Steven L. Jacobs (Aaron Aaronov Chair of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa) and Mark Weitzman (Director of the Task Force Against Hat and Associate Director of Education Outreach, Simon Wiesenthal Center), Dismantling The Big Lie: The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion is a sophisticated debunking of the "Protocols Of the Elders Of Zion", a work anti-Semitic propaganda which has been chronically used as a basis to spread rumors and lies about an elite group of Jews seeking to control the world. Adolf Hitler drew upon the Protocols as one of his sources of support for his genocidal holocaust campaign to exterminate European Jewry. Today, the Protocols continue functioning as a fresh source of antisemitism undergirding illogical and hateful anti-Semitic arguments. Dismantling The Big Lie picks apart each of the 24 protocols individually, examining and deconstructing the roots of the Protocols claims, as well as scrutinizing how the Protocols are used as fuel by extremists today, in traditional venues as well as the Internet. Dismantling The Big Lie is deserving of the very widest audience possible in the never-ending battle to reveal the horrific lies that continue to fuel and spread anti-Semitism in the world today.

Stating the obvious-but.....

On one hand, this is a noble effort. For some strange reason, people still believe that whacked-out piece of trash known as "the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" is a factual document. For those who don't know, that is the mother of conspiracy theroies of how the Jews supposedly plan to rule the world written during the Russian pogroms of Jews in he early 1900s by Sergei Nilus.Anyway, this book is an attempt to decontruct bit by bit the lunacy in which this book spouts by refuting it chapter by chapter. Unfortuantely, this may not convince core beleivers of the "Protocols" slop, as it comes off as very defensive.However, the author wisely includes the Protocols in its entirety so that readers could see it for the bad science fiction that it actually reads like it is.Outrageous statements as "We are despots" and "We will use treachery and deceit," ad nauseum are extremely difficult to take seriously. So in that aspect, this book does a good service in letting the reader slog through this garbage so that the intelligent readers see the Protocols for the hog slop that it is instead of having it filtered to them by zealots.