| Title |
The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", Aum, and antisemitism in Japan. |
|---|---|
| Contributors |
Shillony, Ben-Ami |
| Original Library/publisher |
The Global Impact of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" a Century-Old Myth. Edited by Esther Webman. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011 |
| Host Item |
Antisemitism International 3-4 (2006) 56-67 |
| Description |
Shillony, Ben-Ami. Comments on the essay of David G. Goodman. 78-79. An updated version of a paper delivered at a symposium organized by the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism in October 2004. The "Protocols" became very popular in the 1980s-90s, when anti-Americanism was associated with alleged Jewish control of the USA. However, the "Protocols" appealed not only to anti-Americans, as indicated by its embrace by four advocates whose motivations and interests differed considerably. The Christian fundamentalist xenophobe Masami Uno claims that the Jews threatened to destroy his country. Kinji Yajima "learned" from the "Protocols" that the Jews were responsible for his failure to gain the recognition he felt he deserved. The New-Left ideologue Ryu Ohta published many works about conspiracy theories and the Jewish threat. In 1995, Shoko Asahara's Aum cult released poison gas in the subway in an effort to disrupt the "persecution" of his religion by what he most likely saw as a global Jewish conspiracy. Asahara's example shows how in our age of terrorism the "Protocols" continues to provide an enabling ideology to attack Jews, or "Jews", for their alleged role in a global conspiracy, including in a society like Japan, which has no Jews to speak of. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Another version appeared as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Japan " in "The Global Impact of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'" (2011) 161-174. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990004520140705171 |
| Links |
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