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From: "David M. Dickerson" <....@mycym.com> Dear Cephas Ministry: On the following page of your Web site, you are misusing the educational material on my personal, 70-MB Web site -- the goal of which is to educate about the Shoah/Holocaust and to combat antisemitism and intolerance on the following page of your Web site: http://www.cephasministry.com/israel_february.2004.html In your distortions of truth about Judaism and Zionism, you use the material on the following page of my Web site: http://ddickerson.igc.org/protocols.html You twist my statements that the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' are a crude forgery that has led to the deaths of perhaps tens of thousands of Jews and that Hitler, according to Nora Levin, used the 'Protocols' as a "manual in his war to exterminate the Jews." You spew forth half-truths and deliberate lies about Zionism, Israel, and Jews, such as the following: http://www.cephasministry.com/israel_february.2004.html You write that: All of this and more is foretold in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. If you haven't read it, you should read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. http://ddickersong.igc.org/protocols.html I will not allow the distortion of my educational materials about the 'Protocols' to be twisted or misused by your group. I consider the method in which you refer to my site as an act of slander, subject to legal action, if you do not disassociate me with your group or its confusing and twisted agenda. Please remove all references to me from the following Web page at once: http://www.cephasministry.com/israel_february.2004.html
Hello, Ms. Williams. At 04:11 PM 8/14/2005 -0500, you wrote: I object, in the strongest terms, to the article on your Web site, "Confirmation From A Jew: The United Nations is Zionism," at the following URL: http://www.cephas-library.com/israel/israel_the_un_is_zionism_.html although I realize that you have the right under the First Amendment to publish this article. Your editor's note at the beginning of the article states that "It is the super government mentioned a number of times in the Protocols, the focus of the Learned Elders of Zion, promulgated between 1897 and 1905, why we are taking another look at the Protocols. There are pros and cons to the effect whether the Protocols are a forgery or not. This question has been asked and answered many times. Since the authors are secret...." The authors of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' are NOT secret, because the 'Protocols' is a proven, antisemitic forgery and hoax. Please read the proofs that I present below, with the clear understanding that longer, more detailed, and substantial proofs that the 'Protocols' is an antisemitic forgery exist. (The materials below include a bibliography.) I recommend that you begin by reading the landmark book, 'Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', by Steven L. Jacobs and Mark Weitzman. (KTAV Publishing House, New York [2003]). Your article states that "...The general population of Jews are not members of the Brotherhood and therefore have no play in this planned World conquest as leaders and facilitators...."; yet, you write in the sentence before this one that "the origin of the Protocols most likely goes back to members of the Masonic Lodge, a secret world wide organization which dates back to the Temple of Solomon." The orgin of the 'Protocols' is an antisemitic forgery based upon Maurice Joly's political satire, 'The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny', written in 1864 in French ('Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu'). Joly's book has been readily available in English translation for some time. Your spurious logic of using the 'Protocols' to justify your arguments flys in the face of internationally accepted scholarship and is offensive -- and your thesis is based upon an antisemitic lie -- the "Big Lie." (You quote Henry Ford to justify your views, but Ford publicly retracted his statements that the 'Protocols' are true, as well as his publishing excerpts of this forgery in his 'Dearborn Independent'.) In his book 'Jewish Literacy', Rabbi Joseph Telushkin writes, "Thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands, of Jews, have died because of this infamous forgery." (William Morrow. 1991). Why do you need to resort to using this "infamous forgery" to attempt to make your point? The myth of an international Jewish conspiracy to control the world is a proven and illogical lie, the result of the hatred of Jews, not of political science or sociology. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, David M. Dickerson -------------------------------------------------- "The 'Protocols', purportedly the text of a secret Jewish plan to establish world supremacy, is a book that has enjoyed sustained and vibrant life despite the fact that it has long been discredited as a forgery. First published in Russia in 1903, it became a keystone first of Russian anti-Semitism and then of the Nazi movement. Today, it is still sold all over the world and appears to have found new footholds on the Internet. Of all the anti-Jewish writing, it is perhaps The Protocols that has empowered anti-Semites the most. Although other anti-Semitic works may have a sharper intellectual base, The Protocols' conspiratorial imagery has been more effective in fueling the hatred of Jews and Judaism. The authors examine the current use of the book by extremists, but the core of the work is a point-by-point refutation of all 24 charges against the Jews. This compelling and scholarly work draws on many resources, including authentic Jewish texts, to clearly expose The Protocols as a cruel hoax." By George Cohen # # # # # # # # # # URL: http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?documents/protocols/protocols.zion Author: Danny Keren The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the most notorious and most successful work of modern antisemitism, draws on popular antisemitic notions which have their roots in medieval Europe from the time of the Crusades. The libels that the Jews used blood of Christian children for the Feast of Passover, poisoned the wells and spread the plague were pretexts for the wholesale destruction of Jewish communities throughout Europe. Tales were circulated among the masses of secret rabbinical conferences whose aim was to subjugate and exterminate the Christians, and motifs like these are found in early antisemitic literature. The conceptual inspiration for the Protocols can be traced back to the time of the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century. At that time, a French Jesuit named Abbe Barruel, representing reactionary elements opposed to the revolution, published in 1797 a treatise blaming the Revolution on a secret conspiracy operating through the Order of Freemasons. Barruel's idea was nonsense, since the French nobility at the time was heavily Masonic, but he was influenced by a Scottish mathematician named Robison who was opposed to the Masons. In his treatise, Barruel did not himself blame the Jews, who were emancipated as a result of the Revolution. However, in 1806, Barruel circulated a forged letter, probably sent to him by members of the state police opposed to Napoleon Bonaparte's liberal policy toward the Jews, calling attention to the alleged part of the Jews in the conspiracy he had earlier attributed to the Masons. This myth of an international Jewish conspiracy reappeared later on in 19th century Europe in places such as Germany and Poland. The direct predecessor of the Protocols can be found in the pamphlet "Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu", published by the non-Jewish French satirist Maurice Joly in 1864. In his "Dialogues", which make no mention of the Jews, Joly attacked the political ambitions of the emperor Napoleon III using the imagery of a diabolical plot in Hell. The "Dialogues" were caught by the French authorities soon after their publication and Joly was tried and sentenced to prison for his pamphlet. Joly's "Dialogues", while intended as a political satire, soon fell into the hands of a German antisemite named Hermann Goedsche writing under the name os Sir John Retcliffe. Goedsche was a postal clerk and a spy for the Prussian secret police. He had been forced to leave the postal work due to his part in forging evidence in the prosecution against the Democratic leader Benedict Waldeck in 1849. Goedsche adapted Joly's "Dialogues" into a mythical tale of a Jewish conspiracy as part of a series of novels entitled "Biarritz", which appeared in 1868. In a chapter called "The Jewish Cemetery in Prague and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel", he spins the fantasy of a secret centennial rabbinical conference which meets at midnight and whose purpose is to review the past hundred years and to make plans for the next century. Goedsche's plagiary of Joly's "Dialogues" soon found its way to Russia. It was translated into Russian in 1872, and a consolidation of the "council of representatives" under the name "Rabbi's Speech" appeared in Russian in 1891. These works no doubt furnished the Russian secret police (Okhrana) with a means with which to strengthen the position of the weak Czar Nicholas II and discredit the reforms of the liberals who sympathized with the Jews. During the Dreyfus case of 1893-1895, agents of the Okhrana in Paris redacted the earlier works of Joly and Goedsche into a new edition which they called the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The manuscript of the Protocols was brought to Russia in 1895 and was printed privately in 1897. The Protocols did not become public until 1905, when Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War was followed by the Revolution in the same year, leading to the promulgation of a constitution and institution of the Duma. In the wake of these events, the reactionary "Union of the Russian Nation" or Black Hundreds organization sought to incite popular feeling against the Jews, who they blamed for the Revolution and the Constitution. To this end they used the Protocols, which was first published in a public edition by the mystic priest Sergius Nilus in 1905. The Protocols were part of propaganda campaign which accompanied the pogroms of 1905 inspired by the Okhrana. A variant text of the Protocols was published by George Butmi in 1906 and again in 1907. The edition of 1906 was found among the Czar's collection, even though he had already recognized the work as a forgery. In his later editions, Nilus claimed that the Protocols had been read secretly at the First Zionist Congress at Basle in 1897, while Butmi in his edition wrote that they had no connection with the new Zionist movement, but rather were part of the Masonic conspiracy. In the civil war following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the reactionary White Armies made extensive use of the Protocols to incite widespread slaughters of Jews. At the same time, Russian emigrants brought the Protocols to western Europe, where the Nilus edition served as the basis for many translations, starting in 1920. Just after its appearance in London in 1920, Lucien Wolf exposed the Protocols as a plagiary of the earlier work of Joly and Goedsche, in a pamphlet of the Jewish Board of Deputies. The following year, in 1921, the story of the forgery was published in a series of articles in the London Times by Philip Grave, the paper's correspondent in Constantinople. A whole book documenting the forgery was also published in the same year in America by Herman Bernstein. Nevertheless, the Protocols continued to circulate widely. They were even sponsored by Henry Ford in the United States until 1927, and formed an important part of the Nazis' justification of genocide of the Jews in World War II. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Steven Jacobs and Mark Weitzman. Dismantling the Big Lie:
The Lucien Wolf. The Jewish Bogey and the Forged Protocols of
the Learned The Truth About "The Protocols": A Literary Forgery.
From The Times Encyclopaedia Judaica. Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem (1971),
entries Herman Bernstein. The Truth About "The Protocols of Zion"
(reprinted Norman Cohn. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish
World # # # # # # # # # # URL: http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?documents/protocols/protocols.001 RUSSIAN COURT RULES 'PROTOCOLS' AN ANTI-SEMITIC FORGERY MOSCOW -- In what observers called a historic ruling, a Russian court has pronounced the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" an anti-Semitic forgery -- the first such verdict in the land where the fraud originated 90 years ago. "Up to now every country had disengaged itself from this shameful book, except Russia, where it was concocted," Tancred Golenpolsky, the publisher of the Moscow Jewish newspaper that won the ruling, said Saturday. The court case arose 10 months ago after Golenpolsky's Jewish Gazette accused the radical nationalist group Pamyat ("Memory") of printing anti-Semitic sentiments. Fostering ethnic conflict is punishable under Russian law. Pamyat responded with a $19,000 libel suit, saying it has nothing against Arabs, who are also Semitic. In its defense, the Gazette noted that Pamyat's newspaper published extracts from the Protocols. The document, which details purported meetings of Jewish elders at which they plotted to seize control of the whole world, became the focus of the trial. On Friday, a Moscow district court judge ruled that the document was indeed a forgery. She turned down Pamyat's claim and fined the organization court costs of about $190. The ruling by Judge Lyudmila Belikova was hailed by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, which provided financial support for Golenpolsky and documentary material to the court. "The ruling today under Russian law destroys any veneer of respectability that hatemongers around the globe have tried to bestow on this hateful work," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, in a statement. Pamyat was unrepentant. "They have no decency left to say the Protocols are a fake when the entire history of Russia after 1917 is solid proof that they are genuine," said Dmitri D. Vasiliev, head of the organization, in an interview Saturday. Referring to the fact that such communist theoreticians and luminaries as Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky were Jewish, he said: "Who made the revolution? Who ruined and sold out the country? Take time and read the Protocols; the answers are there gaping at you from every page." But Golenpolsky argued that the significance in the ruling
lies not in its prospect of eradicating anti-Semitism in Russia.
"Anti-Semitism will appear every time prices on potatoes
and bread go up," he said in an interview. For most of this century, the Protocols has been a key manifesto of anti-Semitism. It was used as a pretext for Eastern European pogroms, was a centerpiece of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and permeated Nazi propaganda. It consistently surfaces across the globe as purported documentation of a Jewish conspiracy. At the same time it has been consistently condemned by courts around the world. In 1927, an American judge ordered auto magnate Henry Ford to destroy a large printing of the book he had personally financed; as recently as 1991 the South African government banned it as an immoral publication. Contemporary evidence shows that the Protocols were written by members of Czar Nicholas II's "Okhranka," or secret police, in 1903. Its very birth was particularly unsavory; as much as 60 percent of the document is a bald plagiarism from an anti-Semitic tract published in France around that time. The Okhranka fashioned the document as the purported agreement of a group of Jewish elders meeting in Switzerland in 1897 to plot Jewish hegemony through the destruction of Christian civilization. It was first published in Russia on the eve, and as the instrument, of the vicious 1903 Odessa pogrom. Judge Belikova based her ruling in part on testimony by a three-member panel of Russian academic experts who examined the document and its textual and legal history. The experts were agreed to by both sides, although Golenpolsky said his only stipulation was that they not be Jewish. "My conclusion was that this is prima facie apocryphal and that this is an anti-Semitic document," said one of the experts, Lionel Dadiani of Moscow's Institute of Sociology, who wrote a 67-page opinion for the court. Pamyat's Vasiliev said Saturday that he intends to bring further cases against the Jewish Gazette. # # # # # # # # # # [ END ] From: Cephas Ministries <r421@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:52:47 -0400 Dear David Dickerson, At 07:26 PM 8/19/2005 -0500, you wrote: Thank you for your message. I would prefer that you NOT add my e-mail address to the newsletter and directory named Israel. I simply could not handle the volume of messages that such action would generate. Incidentally, Rita, what is the Israel directory? Thank you very much, Rita. Sincerely, David ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE ----- From: Cephas Ministries <r421@earthlink.net> Hi David, http://israel.cephasministry.com/ Sincerely, At 09:32 AM 8/24/2005 -0500, you wrote: Thank you for your message. I do NOT want my e-mail address added, as I stated in my previous message. Feel free to add my URL to your board. Cordially, David |