The ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’: Tricknology or Jewish Fakery?

In the 1960s Malcolm X began referring to the document known as the Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion. As the Nation of Islam minister assigned to New York’s Temple #7, Malcolm X was in a position where he often confronted the Jewish business owners who dominated the inner-city economy. In a 1963 interview Malcolm could not have been clearer:

[W]hen there’s something worth owning, the Jew’s got it. Walk up and down in any Negro ghetto in America. Ninety percent of the worthwhile businesses you see are Jew-owned. Every night they take the money out. This helps the black man’s community stay a ghetto.

Some NOI members who were exposed to The Protocols and its theme of world Jewish domination speculated that it might be the elusive “tricknology” referred to in the The Supreme Wisdom LESSONS of the Nation of Islam. They found it to be remarkably accurate in describing the actual position of Jews as leaders in every significant field of endeavor. Jews confirm that view with such books as Steven Silbiger’s The Jewish Phenomenon, J.J. Goldberg’s Jewish Power, and Neal Gabler’s An Empire of Their Own: How The Jews Invented Hollywood. The Israel lobby is the most powerful in the country, and America sends billions and billions of dollars to the tiny nation of Jews called Israel. Jews dominate the Forbes “Richest List,” and they are overrepresented among Wall Street bankers. Gentiles see all this and many believe—including, most notably, the industrialist Henry Ford—that The Protocols explain it in a way that makes sense of the apparent Jewish drive to control, to dominate, to rule. He referred to them as International Jews or “All-Judaan,” with its citizens being Jews who are unconditionally loyal to each other wherever they are and regardless of their wealth.*

The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion is a more than 200-page document that is claimed to be the written record of the meetings of the First Zionist Congress held at Basel, Switzerland. The twenty-four meetings—with a corresponding number of “protocols”—occurred in August of 1897 under the presidency of the “Father of Modern Zionism,” Theodor Herzl. The purported proceedings are said to outline a strategy for Jewish control of the world. The Protocols was serialized in a Russian newspaper in 1903 and published as a chapter of a book by the Russian writer Sergei A. Nilus around the same time.

The Protocols rings true for many because it appears to explain the very real age-old conflict between the Jew and the Gentile from the point of view of the masterminds of that turmoil—the Machiavellian “Learned Elders of Zion,” the template for today’s conspiratorial collective: the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, World Economic Forum, Skull & Bones, and Scottish Rite Freemasonry, among a panoply of secret societies. For his fellow conspirators the head Elder lays out their plot to achieve an international Jewish “super-government” that would control the entire world. Among their methods:

• the manipulation of the financial system through speculation;
• the control of the press, literature, and academia;
• the subversion of public morals;
• the undermining of the educational system;
• the creation of political parties and socio-political movements and doctrines such as liberalism that promote anarchy;
• the corrupting and discrediting of political leaders;
• weakening the power of the Christian church;
• and marshaling the powers of Freemasonry.

The Protocols, then, serves as a handy, all-in-one treatise where in a few pages one may get a complete understanding of how Jews have conspired to achieve an international shadow government of evil through the strategic supplanting of the world’s levers of power.

Those who deny the authenticity of The Protocols say it is a “hoax,” a “fabrication,” or a “forgery,” reasoning that it is either (1) a “clumsy plagiarism” planted by the Russian political police as part of an effort to blame Jews for Russia’s struggling economy; or (2) planted by Jews themselves either to deflect criticism of their economic behavior onto the straw man of “anti-Semitism” or to plant a false “lead” for those Gentiles who may be trying to expose the Jews’ practices and methods of achieving economic-political power.

Either way, the possibility of The Protocols being the Tricknology exists in the minds of many. And while that theory may have in the past found some fertile territory, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks & Jews series has given scholars new insights into Jewish operational unity, insights that can now be applied to an analysis of The Protocols. Serious flaws in the structure and content of The Protocols become readily apparent that may serve to firmly affix to the publication the label of hoax. To wit, here are several protocols for understanding The Protocols:

(1) If The Protocols is claimed to be a strategy for Jewish control of the world, then its twenty-four “secret” protocols published in 1903 would be, in effect, old news. The Jews had long dominated many, many international trades and, led by the Rothschild international banking family, were far and away the paramount force of world finance. The English economist John A. Hobson published Imperialism: A Study in 1902, a year before The Protocols:

Does anyone seriously suppose that a great war could be undertaken by any European State, or a great State loan subscribed, if the house of Rothschild and its connections set their face against it?

If Jewish world dominance were a cloak-and-dagger Jewish secret, no one told the Jews. The jurist, freemason, and future president of B’nai B’rith Simon Wolf wrote in 1888:

We all know that the first bankers of the world—Rothschilds—are Jews; we know they control not only the money market, but also the political destiny of the European world….[M]ercantile enterprises owe a vast debt to the Jew. You need but look at the streets of the principal cities of the world on Jewish holidays, and you will at once see that trade is in mourning; the busy hum is hushed; everything is languid…

As early as the 1820s Lord Byron had enshrined the banking power of the Jews in his epic poem “Don Juan”:

Who keeps the world, both old and new, in pain, Or pleasure? Who make politics run glibber all? The shade of Bonaparte’s noble daring?—Jew Rothschild and his fellow Christian Baring….Every loan is not a merely speculative hit, But seats a nation, or upsets a throne.

Even popular writers like Mark Twain explicitly discussed the Jewish role in the economies of America and Europe, showing that the activities discussed in The Protocols were well known and understood among the general population at the time. Without meaning to, Twain sounds like The Protocols in this passage from the September 1898 Harper’s Magazine article titled “Concerning the Jews”:

The Jew is being legislated out of Russia. The reason is not concealed. The movement was instituted because the Christian peasant and villager stood no chance against his commercial abilities. He was always ready to lend money on a crop and sell vodka and other necessaries of life on credit while the crop was growing. When settlement day came, he owned the crop; and next year or year after, he owned the farm, like Joseph.

In the dull and ignorant England of John’s time, everybody got into debt to the Jew. He gathered all lucrative enterprises into his hands; he was the king of commerce; he was ready to be helpful in all profitable ways; he even financed crusades for the rescue of the Sepulchre. To wipe out his account with the nation and restore business to its natural and incompetent channels, he had to be banished from the realm.

Such are the published beliefs of well-known scholars and popular writers which show that Jewish economic dominance and the consequent political power were generally understood and their methods were not “secret.” Indeed, these pre-Protocols commentaries are more explicit than The Protocols themselves about Jewish economic methodology.

(2) The Protocols does not actually describe how the great Jewish banking families—Rothschilds, Goldmans, Seligmans, Sachses, Warburgs, Lazards, Sterns, Lehmans et al.—achieved their success. In fact, through its lack of references to those known financial powerhouses (indeed, its lack of any references), it appears that the Protocols author intends to divert attention from the actual recorded history of the growth of capitalism and the Jewish mastery of that system. In one section, the “Tyranny of Usury,” it explains “a foreign loan” as if presenting the concept to novices—not the grandmasters of global finance: “A loan is an issue of government bills of exchange containing a percentage obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital,” before explaining how interest is applied to the principal. Learned elders by that very definition would not need such a primer course, though a Russian peasant reader might.

(3) The underpinning of Jewish wealth and progress had always been slavery and the international marketing of the products of slave labor, like sugar, cotton, tobacco, etc. The Protocols ignores this most successful and obvious stratagem for the Jews’ economic empowerment. Strangely, race and black slavery are not even mentioned in The Protocols.

In fact, unlike The Protocols, the most prominent Jewish thinkers and planners never hesitated to calculate their actions in terms of racial supremacy. This is embodied in the rabbinically conjured Babylonian Talmud and the writings of the greatest Judaic sages. Even the notables mentioned in The Protocols—Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche—discuss slavery and Blacks in their writings. It is inconceivable that something as elemental as a labor requirement would go undiscussed and unrecorded in any Jewish international power planning session.

(4) The Protocols is written with a class-consciousness, designed to appeal to or be understood by a population with a class-based (read: communist or socialist) perspective of the world. It is said that the Russian government contrived The Protocols to inflame the Russian peasantry against the rising Jewish political class, and it seems that the book’s audience—the Russian peasantry—is expected to understand class struggles rather than racial ones. Curiously, “America” is mentioned only once (Protocol No. 7) and in a passing reference, even though America, by the time of The Protocols’s publication, had become the central capitalist engine of the world’s (Jewish) economy.

(5) Protocol #12 specifically directs Jews to control the press and periodicals (newspapers and magazines) to make sure they do not reveal to “the Goyim” the true workings of “our government.” Protocol No. 12 states in part:

…[O]ur government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals….If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. For which reason all journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.

By “journals” the authors likely mean those technical publications intended for qualified members of specialized fields, such as historians, doctors, engineers, etc. But the authors seem unaware that those very same journals provide the best source for proof of the means and methods of Jewish control. Contrary to the directive of Protocol No. 12, Jewish academic journals entirely within Jewish control were the main repositories of the most damning evidence of Jewish historical misdeeds, including their mastery of the slave trade. A review of the footnotes in The Secret Relationship series reveals many, many citations from those prestigious Jewish journals. Such exposure, by their own Jewish scholarship, would be most injurious to the plot of these “learned elders.”

(6) There is a heavy focus on Freemasonry in The Protocols but there is little beyond the simple acknowledgment of the existence of the secret order. The related passages in Protocol No. 15:

we shall create and multiply free masonic lodges in all the countries of the world, absorb into them all who may become or who are prominent in public activity, for these lodges we shall find our principal intelligence office and means of influence. All these lodges we shall bring under one central administration, known to us alone and to all others absolutely unknown, which will be composed of our learned elders.

Again, this does not “reveal” anything that an observant outsider would not readily know. In 1855, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise was the most prominent rabbi in America and he is credited with the founding of Reform Judaism, the branch of Judaism practiced by the vast majority of Jews today. He was founder and editor of the influential American Israelite and in that year he was unequivocal about the Jewish role in Freemasonry:

Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, degrees, charges, passwords and explanations are Jewish from the beginning to the end…

The Encyclopedia Judaica reveals: “In 1793 the cornerstone ceremony for the new synagogue in Charleston, South Carolina, was conducted according to the rites of Freemasonry.” At that time Charleston was considered the “unofficial capital of North American Jewry” with a Jewish population larger than any other city. In that same founding year for that Charleston synagogue, 1793, the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol was laid by President George Washington in a very public Masonic ritual, in which he wore a Masonic apron. According to the Jewish Virtual Library: “Jewish names appear among the founders of Freemasonry in colonial America, and in fact it is probable that Jews were the first to introduce the movement into the country.” So, more than a century before the birth of The Protocols, American founding fathers George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Paul Revere were all leaders in Freemasonry—a Jewish organization. The “plan” to establish Freemasonry in the future—“we shall create”—demonstrates the Protocols author was entirely unaware of a long-established and fully operational plan.

(7) An authentic for-Jewish-eyes-only blueprint would outline in detail the Learned Elders’ assignations, the operatives carrying out their clandestine objectives, and those countries targeted for control. For instance, the currently operational “protocol” plan devised in the United States Pentagon war room and revealed to Gen. Wesley Clark in 2001, was specifically designed “to take out 7 countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” The use of false flags, media propaganda, and other public deceptions provided the cover for the operation, which is intended to secure control of the natural resources (primarily oil and gas) in those regions. The Protocols speaks only in generalities and lacks the kind of specificity that one expects from a Jewish “mission control.”

(8) Protocols, by definition, are a written record of a meeting. This Protocols is a monologue, as if by a college professor conveying information riddled with extraneous and unnecessarily high-brow verbiage. Compare the protocols’ structure with that of any legislative body such as the United States Congress in the Congressional Record, which has many obvious features lacking in The Protocols: a list of attendees; the relative debates and proceedings; the final decisions made or actions taken or agreed to be taken to address the issues raised; the motions taken, seconded, or rejected; and the votes and the voting outcomes.

For all the reasons outlined above The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion appears to be a work of fiction containing many insightful and truthful observations already available to the astute and conscientious layperson and scholar. Whether it is for the purpose of “setting up” the Jews for public scorn or crafted by Jews themselves as a diversionary “false flag” to side-track the analysis of legitimate documents like the Babylonian Talmud, The Protocols is a poor substitute for the serious study of the Jewish issue.

The Protocols does not meet the barest of qualifications to be considered the Tricknology as presented in the Nation of Islam’s Lost Found Muslim Lesson No. 1, Question & Answer 4.

Mossa came two thousand years later and taught him how to live a respectful life, how to build a home for himself and some of the tricknollegy that Yacob taught him, which was devilishment, telling lies, stealing and how to master the original man.

The Protocols as a narrative does highlight the arts of deception and larceny, but the specific function of mastering the Original Man is not considered in The Protocols. THE LESSONS further delineate that the Tricknology contains specialized instructions for living a respectful life but the 24 Protocols are silent on those issues.

All the listed prerequisites of the Tricknology are indeed met in full by the Babylonian Talmud, and the study of that document will lead one directly to all the terms and conditions of Satan’s rulership of “this world.”

*According to an Artificial Intelligence (AI) query, “All-Judaan is a concept described in various sources as a state that operates globally, with its citizens being Jews who are unconditionally loyal wherever they are and regardless of their wealth. According to these sources, All-Judaan is the only entity that exercises world government, while other states are limited to national governance. The power of All-Judaan is derived from capital and journalism, or money and propaganda. This state does not have its own standing army and navy but relies on other nations to provide military support in exchange for political and economic benefits. For instance, the British Fleet historically protected the progress of the Jewish world economy, ensuring Britain’s political and territorial rule in return. All-Judaan is said to control the news and shape public opinion to further its plans. It is willing to allow nationalistic governments to govern various regions but insists on controlling these governments. The concept of All-Judaan is controversial and is not recognized by mainstream historical or political discourse.”