Antisemitism for Popular Consumption: Selections from the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

Abstract

These Protocols give the substance of addresses delivered to the innermost circle of the Rulers of Zion … Parts and summaries of the plan have been published from time to time during the centuries as the secrets of the Elders have leaked out … It demonstrates that the Jews are now a world menace and that the Aryan races will have to domicile them permanently out of Europe. Who are the Elders? This is a secret which has not been revealed. They are the Hidden Hand.

The pamphlet exists in many versions. An excellent annotated edition appeared in German, edited by Jeffrey Sammons, Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion: Die Grundlage des modernen Antisemitismus—eine Fälschung. Text und Kommentar (Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 1998). The selections here are taken from the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, trans. Victor E. Marsden (London: Briton Publishing Society, 1923). Italics and capitalization are used as in Marsden’s translation.