The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an antisemitic hoax and forgery purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first publishe
Cover of the first book edition of The Great Within the Minuscule and Antichrist, in which the Protocols appeared as an appendix
The Book of the Kahal (1869) by Jacob Brafman, in the Russian language original
The frontispiece of a 1912 edition using occult symbols
The Times exposed the Protocols as a forgery on August 16–18, 1921.
The international Jewish conspiracy or the world Jewish conspiracy is an antisemitic trope that has been described as "one of the most widespread and long-running conspiracy theories". Although it typ
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
…into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. It played a key part in popularizing belief in an international Jewish conspiracy. The text was exposed as a work of black propaganda by the British newspaper The Times in 1921 and by the German newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in 1924…
Nazi propaganda poster entitled Das jüdische Komplott ("The Jewish Plot")