Anti-Semitism has existed since ancient times and has led to bloody events many times throughout history. It also often took the form of various conspiracy theories, many of which have survived to this day in one form or another.
Fake protocols
In 1903, the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” were published in the St. Petersburg newspaper Znamya. The full text consisted of 24 paragraphs. They described the methods by which the Jews planned to achieve world domination. For example:
- propaganda of all ideas capable of undermining the established order in politics, including Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzscheism, liberalism, socialism, communism, anarchism and utopianism;
- world wars;
- pornographic literature;
- brainwashing technologies;
- universal suffrage.
The document turned out to be a fake, which was proven shortly after its publication and has been repeatedly proved in the future. Some parts of the “Protocols” were a direct plagiarism of a literary pamphlet from France in the middle of the XNUMXth century. Despite this, in the first half of the XNUMXth century, the essay was used by anti-Semites to justify crimes – first in the Russian Empire, and then in Western countries. After the Nazis came to power in Germany, the Protocols began to be studied in schools as a real historical document.
White terrorism
In 1984, a number of Western and Southern states of the United States were shocked by armed clashes between a group of 10–20 people and the police. Its members robbed banks, stole cars and attacked police officers. They called themselves the Silent Brotherhood or The Order (“The Quiet Brotherhood” or “The Order”) and were associated with a variety of terrorist racist organizations from the Ku Klux Klan to the American Nazi Party. The main goal of the robberies was to raise money for the war with the US Government, which they called ZOG – an acronym for “Zionist Occupation Government”. After being caught and tried, the members of the organization went to prison for long periods.
European adaptation
In justifying their fight against ZOG, members of the Silent Brotherhood used, among other things, the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, which, in their opinion, proved the desire of the Jews to establish world domination. Since the 1990s, the ZOG conspiracy theory has been taken up by anti-Semitic organizations in other countries, such as Sweden and Slovakia.
Antisemitic set
ZOG does not have a single narrative, as is often the case with conspiracy theories. This concept absorbs various speculations and fakes like a sponge. The first, for example, is the hypothesis that the Jews completely control all the financial flows of the United States. The second is a fake that ZOG warned the 4 Jews who worked at the World Trade Center not to go to work on September 11, 2001. In fact, Jews made up 9,2% of those killed in that attack (about 200 people).
In the 2020s, the ZOG conspiracy continues to exist, increasingly merging with anti-globalization politics.