"Russian origin or not, the Protocols is being applied and
[Khazarian] Jews are achieving their world domination plan."

The Protocols Revisited

Review: Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Definitive English Edition, Edited and Translated by Thomas Dalton, Clemens & Blair, 2023

Clemens & Blair has issued a brand new book on a long-debated topic titled Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Definitive English Edition, Edited and Translated by Thomas Dalton PhD. I was intrigued to see it, having found piecemeal material on the mysterious Protocols over years of indirect study, and also studying only one other full book devoted to the subject, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, Foreword by Texe Marrs, commentary by Henry Ford, translated Victor E. Marsden (1934, reprinted Rivercrest Publishing, Austin TX, 2011). I wondered whether another book on this persistent topic would offer much that was new.

This Dalton book encompasses 275 pages, almost the same as the 2011 Marrs book. Both contain at their core accurate translations of the 24 Protocols themselves, which are necessary for reference. Dalton adds his own useful explanatory footnotes and titles for each protocol. The great value in the new Dalton treatment is in the three other sections: PART ONE: Overview and Early Commentaries, PART THREE: National Socialist Commentaries, PART FOUR: Contemporary Reflections (PART TWO is the Protocols themselves). Both books devote about 75% of their pages to such focus.

Introduction

These commentaries and reflections are particularly welcome in the Dalton volume. His introduction of 14 pages gives us the necessary description and explanation for what the Protocols essentially is (I refer to the document in the singular, and in italics when referring to the document): “I am tempted to call it the nicest work of anti-Semitism known to man.” Author and editor Thomas Dalton is known for many volumes that address the Jewish Question, and his Protocols book is still another—surprising that not all Protocols analyses do. I found it admirable that the Introduction also admits that “the document is truly shrouded in mystery,” “Its origins are unknown,” and “The author likewise is unknown,” thus avoiding the ignorant arrogance of other works.

The Introduction goes on to establish what is known, including an analysis of the strange writing style and structure (or lack of it), the clear fact that the Protocols are by Jews for Jews, and Jewish stridency in insisting it is a “forgery.”

Under sub-section “Murky Origins,” Dalton gives the first signs of the Protocols’ emergence to the public in 1902 in Russia, subsequent publishing by Sergei Nilus in his 1905 book, and on from there. The Protocols has earlier origins however, in France, and while later sections of the book present some of this knowledge, overall the book misses a couple too. I searched the convenient index for “Justine Glinka,” and found it missing, but the index covers only the Protocols themselves. Overall the book met the standards for a “definitive” edition, while the omission of this small detail of origins left it just short of exhaustive. The Marrs version includes the Glinka account, and I have found that no single source of analysis on the Protocols collects all knowledge in one place. Dalton’s version comes closer than any.

PART ONE: Overview and Early Commentaries

This section includes a “Summary” by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which is almost humorous in this context, but wise to establish the overwhelming Jewish dismissal of the Protocols. This sentence will serve to summarize almost all Jewish perspectives: “The Protocols is entirely a work of fiction, intentionally written to blame Jews for a variety of ills.” Case closed.

One early commentary comes from Wickham Steed writing in the London Times in 1920. He remarks upon the Protocols published in English in a booklet “The Jewish Peril.” Steed frames his essay as concern for unjust anti-Semitism the book could cause if left unexamined, but in the end conveys a genuine alarm that the Protocols are being successfully applied, especially in three year old USSR. He summarized the 24 Protocols down to 7 categories: the validity of a secret international cabal of Jews, with an “undying hatred of the traditional Christian world” and lust for domination, to destroy nation-states and impose Jewish control, using toxic political ideologies, by experts in governing of many centuries: Jews, over ignorant Goyim masses using corrupt puppets, weaponizing every sector and institution of the nations to demoralize, confuse, pervert and subvert the populations. Steed speculates: “Have we (British), by straining every fibre of our national body (WWI), escaped a ‘Pax Germanica’ only to fall into a ‘Pax Judaica’?”

Next we have an extensive section from Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent writings. The Marrs version has 10 full essays from Ford covering 90 pages. This entry by Dalton keeps the focus, presenting the essentials in key extracts from multiple essays all from around 1920. It basically reviews the Protocols to show that it was being implemented at that time, citing verbatim text and associating it with known developments of the day. Concluding, this chapter speaks of “… a program by which a people may be deliberately devastated materially and spiritually, and yet kept pleasant all the time… altogether under control of the members of one race.”

PART ONE completes with the full essay by Richard Graves, also in the London Times of 1921, that first announced the Protocols was a “forgery,” but in fact Graves announced it was a plagiarism. Here we learn the story that the document draws extensively on the contents of a book published in 1864 known as the Geneva Dialogues, authored by Maurice Joli (sometimes Joly). I found Dalton’s relevant footnotes helpful, but was surprised he did not note here that Joli was Jewish, and even a Freemason (this is revealed later in the book). The Geneva Dialogues present as a conversation in the underworld between the ghosts of Montesquieu and Machiavelli, and Graves catalogs its many verbatim or near-verbatim quotes which appear in the Protocols. Plagiarism is established, forgery is not.

The Epilogue of this chapter is written not by Graves, but by the Editors of The Times, who dismiss any relevance of the Protocols thereafter: “The fact of the plagiarism has now been conclusively established, and the legend may be allowed to pass into oblivion. … thought it does not, in our opinion, affect the Jewish problem, which happily, in this country, cannot be said to exist in its Continental form.” Of course this assessment was entirely false, as we will see in PART THREE.

PART THREE: National Socialist Commentaries

Here is a unique contribution to Protocols analysis; I have not seen it elsewhere. Understandable that Dalton would include it, given his expertise in this area of history reflected in other books he has translated and published. Since the National Socialist Germans were renown for their problems with Jews, I was interested to see what they had to say about the Protocols.

First is an introduction to a full book about the Protocols by Estonian National Socialist Alfred Rosenberg. He explains that the elaborate attempts by Jews to suppress knowledge of and discredit the validity of the Protocols only confers more validity upon them, and discredits Jews. Rosenberg adds his own knowledge to the large corpus showing the Jewish plan for world control through destruction of White Western Christian civilization in other sources, notably the writings of three Jews: Theodore Herzl, Max Nordau and Ahad Ha’am (Asher Ginsberg). Jews dominated the Entente against Germany in World War I, and four Jews held positions of power in Great Britain. The rest of Rosenberg’s essay details Jewish power in America, England, France, Italy, USA (again), League of Nations and Germany. “The politics of the present (1924) corresponds exactly to the details of the intentions and plans as they were discussed and laid down more than 25 years ago.” Thus Rosenberg brings the Protocols into the context of his time.

He closes with a classic National Socialist perspective on the entire Jewish-German question:

… at the highest point of the greedy peak of power, the fall into the abyss awaits the Jew. The final fall. After him the Jew has no more room in Europe or America. … a new epoch is beginning… As one of the portents of this coming struggle for a new world formation stands the knowledge of the nature of the demon of our present decline. Then the way will be free for a new era.

Dalton is known for two books, Hitler on the Jews and Goebbels on the Jews, and next he offers us “Hitler and Goebbels on the Protocols.” Of all his speaking and writing, Hitler has only one statement on the Protocols, from Mein Kampf, Volume 1, 11.4. He states in part:

It doesn’t matter from what Jewish brain these revelations sprang; the important thing is that they disclose, with an almost terrifying precision, the nature and activity of the Jewish people, exposing both their inner contexts and final aims. …The moment that the general public gets hold of this book, the Jewish danger will be stamped out.

Of the many thousands of entries in Goebbels’ diaries over 20 years, only four mention the Protocols. First (1924) he says he must study them after reading of them in Henry Ford’s work, next that they are a forgery but still reflect “inner truth,” then wonders whether the Protocols would be good propaganda in France (1939) and last decides that the Protocols can be effective war propaganda especially in Britain if done with subtlety (1943). Goebbels clarifies something I have pondered for years:

The intellectual man doesn’t have a natural defense against the Jewish danger because he is essentially broken in his instinct. As a result, people of a high level of civilization are the most vulnerable. In nature, life always acts in the same way against parasitism; this is not always the case in the existence of nations. This actually results in the Jewish danger.

The penultimate chapter in this section is titled “NSDAP Introduction to Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which Dalton suspects was also written by Rosenberg. The party had been producing copies for public consumption in Germany since it won leadership in 1933, and this introduction is from the 1938 edition. “In this way, millions of people have become informed about the corrupting character of Jewish thought and action.”

This introduction gives its own account of the origins of the Protocols, and then focuses on evidence of the Jewish plan inflicted on Germany. The Jew Lucien Wolf is identified as exposing the Jewish influence over the Treaty of Versailles that so devastated Germany. Other Jews are named as founding and leading so many of the political parties violently opposed to the NSDAP, including the German Communist Party (KPD). Clearly the Protocols had been applied to use of the media and entertainment in pre-NSDAP Germany, along with promotion of pacifism, sexual perversion, abortion and miscegenation.

The chapter closes with powerful warnings for the people of other nations, and indeed for people of the world today:

This bloodthirsty desire for murder and revenge… is frightening and revolting, but nonetheless a genuine and accurate picture of the eternal enmity Jews have against non-Jews. … this well nourished racial instinct… steadily works to oppose and destroy all existing values of community, culture, justice, and morality. …we must conclude that the theses and facts proclaimed in the Protocols, and evidenced by the activities of the Jews in Germany, have been fully proved. …At the moment, Germany is enemy #1 of the Jews. It has freed itself from the poison in its racial body through the Nuremberg laws. Each people and each country, however, must sooner or later defend itself against subversive Jewish activity. …We have freed ourselves from the nightmare of Jewish dominance. …For the future, therefore, and for every country, there is but one warning call… Peoples of the world, defend your holiest possessions! (folk and nation – KH)

Though not technically National Socialist, the final chapter in this section is by Italian “’neo-fascist’ thinker” Julius Evola. Dalton’s initial summary tells us Evola’s name in the Italian translation in 1938 “contributed greatly” to its spread. His is the only chapter that goes beyond acknowledging the Jewish Question of the Protocols—including by the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Museum–by adding “the true forces at work in history.” Evola first answers the question of authenticity versus establishing the Protocols’ veracity. He cites the Bern Trial in Switzerland where Jews tried to establish the non-authenticity of the Protocols—the only mention I have seen in any work on the topic. Here Evola presents more of the details on Protocols’ origins, and we learn Joly was “a half-Jew, a revolutionary and a Freemason.” As with others we have seen, Evola shows that plagiarism in no way precludes vercity, given “1) proof by the facts; 2) proof by the nature of the Jewish spirit.”

Evola summarizes some of the Protocols by number: “This is the first phase of the occult war; its goal is to create an enormous proletariat, to reduce the peoples to a mush of beings without tradition or inner strength.” He adds broad historical perspectives including a Masonic Congress declaring World War I “the crowning work of the French Revolution,” leading to the League of Nations, the Popular Front swallowing France and inciting the Spanish Civil War, and “This is why Adolf Hitler considered it (the Protocols) to be undoubtedly the most powerful means of awakening the German people.” This seems somewhat divergent from what we read earlier from Hitler and Goebbels themselves, but the point is clear.

Evola presents his perhaps unique theory that the plan for world domination may not be exclusively Jewish. He asks us to “become aware of forces for which Judaism itself may have been, to some extent, only the instrument.” He claims the first edition of the Protocols is “signed by the representatives of Sion of the 33^rd degree,” and explains that Freemasonry was not founded by Jews, but only became Judaized in the 1700s. This is classic Evola: “it follows that it is necessary to refer to a much larger network of corrupting occult forces, which we are even inclined to believe is not purely human.” Some have said Jews are not fully human, and some Jews say that about Goyim, but Evola is referring to spiritual or energetic entities.

Returning to the Jews, Evola accepts their undeniable presence and power to conduct the Protocols, but attributes that not to their racial nature, but to “the Law,” the “Talmudic spirit… whether in an atavistic and unconscious manner, or an occult manner…” He shows examples of how the Protocols derive directly from this Law. Evola ends with hope, solidarity and inspiration for “a robust, unshakable, irresistible block” of European reconquest against the Jewish Sovereign in a conflict “of such a merciless nature as the world has never seen before.” (This last quote is from the Protocols) Recall Evola is writing in 1938.

For added perspective, this chapter includes an extended excerpt from his book of 1953, Men Among the Ruins. It focuses on the likelihood that a hidden force beyond organized Jews and Freemasons will emerge in the last phase of world control. It may even supersede Jews and Freemasons: “…the role of a central guiding force of global subversion in this last period (Fourth Estate – media) will no longer be played by Judaism or Masonry and that the main current may turn against both of these groups, as if they were residues to be liquidated once and for all…” Evola does not try to define this force.

PART FOUR Contemporary Reflections

This is the shortest section, yet of great interest to me. It presents two chapters making up 39 pages, the first from 2010 and the final from the year of publication, 2023. The Marrs book has nothing so current but for a brief Conclusion, nor any other source I have seen.

Carlo Mattogno, known for his holocaust revision work, is author of “The Fake ‘Fake Protocols’: The Purpose and Significance of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Mattogno starts with the view that the Protocols as “fake antisemitism” by the Russians to deflect blame onto Jews was false. Second, he presents the view that “philosemitism has used the Protocols” in “a strategy aimed at reinforcing the idea that anti-Semitism has no legitimate causes.” Both theses are supported by extensive references and analysis. Finally, Mattogno reveals his grand insight of the double-fake in his title: the Protocols “explicitly call on the peoples of Europe to reject liberalism and restore autocratic sovereignty… absolute monarchy by divine right.” This suggest the Czarist Russians and perhaps other monarchs of Europe as the ultimate authors, with the goal of preserving their monarchies against the rising threat of liberal parliamentary democracies—an avenue for Jews, I would ask?

As appropriate, editor Thomas Dalton has the final word in “The Protocols in the 21^st Century.” He re-establishes the unknowns and mysteries of the Protocols as the humble and proper basis for understanding. As in other chapters, Dalton reviews the record of evidence for Jewish world domination prior to the emergence of the Protocols, finding a different explanation than Evola. He brings it up to date, though vaguely: “One can only wonder how extreme the situation is today, more than 150 years later.”

Dalton gives his own view of four aspects: the “forgery,” politics in Russia, writing style analysis, and veracity. I was intrigued to read about his knowledge of the four Czars in temporal proximity to the emergence of the Protocols, especially Alexander II who was assassinated by Jews in 1881. Dalton’s view is essentially aligned with the National Socialists and the others throughout the book, with the exception of US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Graves and Evola: forgery, plagiarism, Russian origin or not, the Protocols is being applied and Jews are achieving their world domination plan.

Dalton provides a fascinating list of quotes denouncing Jews ranging from Hecateus in 300 BC to Heidegger (no date is given but he lived until 1976); see especially the Voltaire, Nietzsche, Twain, and H G Wells quotes. Dalton concludes: “Both main themes are thus proven: Jews indeed have designs on world domination, and they indeed view all of non-Jewish humanity with contempt and hatred. The Protocols are, in this sense, true.”

In my own studies of many sources of opinion on the Protocols, I cannot remember ever seeing any substantive solutions to the dreadful horrors they portray. Dalton delivers his solutions in this final chapter of a fascinating and engaging book. 1) Limit the number of Jews in every nation, restrict their membership in positions of power, and tax them in compensation for their financial predation. 2) independent nations join together to impose boycotts and sanctions on nations Jews control. 3) massive education campaign to reveal the truth of the Jews in history and today. In closing, Dalton states with utility that if knowledge of the Protocols can help avert a “global calamity,” their value is assured.

The book provides a Bibliography, and I thought it might be more complete if it included the Marrs volume, as well perhaps as the essay by Revilo P. Oliver “Those Awful Protocols” (1991), which complete those very few details this otherwise definitive edition omits. An Index is also a very welcome resource for those of us drawn to research, and this index covers the Protocols alone and not the commentaries and reflections.

Thomas Dalton, PhD has achieved the high claim of his title, Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Definitive English Edition. While such reading cannot be considered “entertainment,” given the urgent and alarming subject matter, I found the variety of writing styles, viewpoints and analyses among the many chapters compelling in counter-point and also in consensus. I struggle to think of any adult and youth today who would not gain crucial perspective on history and current events that they can apply to their own protection and the defense of the world. Along with bringing this knowledge to our attention once again in this new form, Dalton’s greatest contribution is the simple, clear and effective solutions he offers at the end. I am left with a persistent peal of passion:

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