tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post115239449588847083..comments2023-10-27T08:09:37.525-04:00Comments on Bhikkhu's Blog: Power of NightmaresAjahn Punnadhammohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09660291919550183357noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1152673304789936372006-07-11T23:01:00.000-04:002006-07-11T23:01:00.000-04:00Oy, I didn't know the Protocols had another target...Oy, I didn't know the Protocols had another target originally. <BR/><BR/>My understanding of the history of anti-Semitism pre-WW2 is pretty shaky but I think historically Jews have always played a precarious role in the countries they've tried to live in (post Diaspora). They end up forced in to being the public face for the oppressor usually as bankers or bill collectors because in Christian Laurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705347285839743163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1152667073435919122006-07-11T21:17:00.000-04:002006-07-11T21:17:00.000-04:00Interesting factoid; the original version of the P...Interesting factoid; the original version of the Protocols wasn't about the Jews at all, it was written in French, I think in the reign of Louis-Phillipe and was directed against the Freemasons. Who, given Louis-Phillipe's proclivities, were pretty powerful in France at the time.<BR/><BR/>It was the Russian Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana who reworked the original and changed the villains to aAjahn Punnadhammohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09660291919550183357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1152666091111635112006-07-11T21:01:00.000-04:002006-07-11T21:01:00.000-04:00I just did some fact checking I should have done e...I just did some fact checking I should have done earlier. It was the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” that I was remembering from early in grad school. For a good description of Ford's involvement with it and his use of anti-Semitism to incite fear toward his own ends see: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/ford1.htmlLaurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705347285839743163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22928991.post-1152665498165854062006-07-11T20:51:00.000-04:002006-07-11T20:51:00.000-04:00Wow, I hadn't even considered that the media had d...Wow, I hadn't even considered that the media had done such a number on me about Al Quaeda. Your description reminds me of the anti-Semitism in WW2 and after that posited the Articles of Zion which was a fictitious plot by "the Jews" (of which I'm one) to create a snake hold on Europe. The Articles were written, circulated (including by the Ford family in the glove compartment of every new Ford Laurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15705347285839743163noreply@blogger.com