The title under which the Protocols are presented in Mr. Nilus’s text,
according to the literal translation from the Russian, is:
“PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE ZIONIST MEN OF WISDOM”
The word “Protocols” can be used in several senses, but in the present
case the context would indicate that the word means simply the written
minutes of certain meetings—_i.e._ meetings of the Zionist Men of Wisdom.
The arrangement is in twenty-four separate Protocols, each Protocol
apparently recording the contents of an address to the meeting by one
of its members. The context would also indicate that all the addresses
were delivered by the same person, and it should also be noted that each
Protocol deals with a more or less distinct part of one complete subject,
like the chapter of a book.
In the first Protocol it is stated that the speaker undertakes to
formulate “our system both from our point of view and from that of the
Goys.” The word “Goys” or “Goyims” is an old Hebrew word signifying
Gentiles, or persons who are not Jews. All of the following Protocols,
whether they are the utterances of the same person who speaks in the
first Protocol or not, are a continuation of the same general subject.
Taking the set of documents as a whole, they clearly purport to formulate
a strategic plan for united action of the Jews as a nation, or a people,
to obtain certain ends. These ends are nothing less than complete
political and religious domination of the world. The means by which this
universal domination is to be achieved are set forth with great clearness
and considerable elaboration.
The document as a whole is of the most extraordinary character, and
while to some readers it may seem fanatical or visionary, others will be
more impressed with its profound cleverness, with the cold logic of the
reasoning, and with the general orderliness of statement and argument,
indicating that the work, whatever the underlying motive may be, is the
result of careful thought and mature deliberation.
The strategic plan of action is Machiavellian and ruthless in the
extreme, and is expressly founded on the propositions that “might is
right” and that “politics have nothing in common with morals.” It is also
explicitly stated that the end in view is to “subjugate all government
to our super-government,” and the Jewish super-government is to be an
autocracy with a Jewish Sovereign at its head.
Briefly summarized, the means by which this world domination is to be
achieved are as follows:
1. The national power of non-Jewish states is to be broken down by the
fomenting of internal revolutions through appeals to class hatred,
and by pretended efforts to obtain greater freedom and privileges for
certain classes of the people, using the words “liberty, equality, and
fraternity” merely as catchwords to gain recruits for the Jewish cause.
Autocratic governments, which alone are strong, must be weakened in the
first instance by the introduction of liberalism, which will pave the way
to anarchy.
2. All wars must be “shifted to an economic basis,” allowing no
territorial advantages to result from war, and thus tending to make the
Jewish control of wealth the determining factor in war.
3. The Jewish international rights are to be strengthened at the expense
of the national rights of the several Gentile nations.
4. The non-Jewish states are to be further weakened by promoting false
and conflicting political policies; by obtaining secret control over the
actions of public officials; by manipulation of the press, and by the
gradual elimination of free speech.
5. The authority of governments where liberalism prevails is to be
weakened by the destruction of religion (other than the Jewish religion),
since it is the conservative and moral force which makes liberal
governments possible.
6. In order to overcome the resistance of those states which are
unwilling to make submission to the new Jewish power, there must be no
hesitation in resorting to violence, cunning, hypocrisy, bribery, fraud,
and treason, or to the seizure of the property of others.
7. The destruction of the social and economic structure of Christian
states will also be brought about by the destruction of industrial
prosperity, through speculation and constant strikes, “throwing masses of
workmen out of employment,” artificially raising wages, thus increasing
the cost of the necessaries of life, and finally by bringing about a
general economic crisis and the disorganization of financial systems.
The financial strength of the various non-Jewish states will also be
undermined by causing them to overburden themselves with foreign and
national loans on an ever increasing scale, which will ultimately lead to
bankruptcy.
8. Upon the social and political chaos created by these various means
a Jewish dictatorship is to be gradually built up, principally through
the “terrible” Jewish power of the purse and through the other great
Jewish powers of control over the press and over the revolutionary labor
movement.
9. During the period of transition from Gentile to Jewish political
control in every state there will be a secret government by the Jews,
brought about through the manipulation of the press, misleading public
opinion, mass terror, weakening the initiative of the Gentiles,
misdirecting their education, and sowing discord among them.