The lie The Times nearly killed (Pt 2): Publication and reaction
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🗓️ 7 September 2021
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Summary
A hundred years ago last month, The Times published a series of articles proving the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a conspiracy theory that Jews were looking to control world governments, were a forgery.
In part two, David Aaronovitch dives into The Times archive to find out what happened after the proof was made public and why the conspiracy theory never quite went away.
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| 0:00.0 | In the years after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a pamphlet of Russian origin was widely |
| 0:10.4 | circulated around the Western world. |
| 0:13.6 | The protocols of the elders of Zion claim to prove that a group of Jewish leaders was pulling |
| 0:19.1 | the strings behind every major global event and putting members of the Jewish faith into |
| 0:24.6 | positions of power. |
| 0:26.4 | However before, have a race and a creed been accused of a more sinister conspiracy. |
| 0:32.7 | Some of the features of the would-be Jewish programme bear an uncanny resemblance to situations |
| 0:38.0 | and events now developing under our eyes. |
| 0:41.6 | In 1920, it was even written up and given credence in the Times. |
| 0:45.7 | But a year later, one of the newspaper's correspondents stumbled on proof that they |
| 0:51.6 | were fake. |
| 0:53.1 | A very curious discovery has been made by a Russian here who is working for the American |
| 0:58.4 | Red Cross. |
| 0:59.4 | It is that the protocols of the learned elders is largely plagiarism of a book published |
| 1:04.8 | in Geneva. |
| 1:06.0 | You're listening to stories of our Times and the Times and the Sunday Times, I'm David |
| 1:09.6 | Aronovich. |
| 1:10.6 | Today, the lie that the Times nearly killed, part two, publication and reaction. |
| 1:20.3 | So, to recap, the upgrades the Times correspondent in Constantinople has sent an old book in |
| 1:28.2 | French called The Dialogues all the way to London on the Orient Express. |
| 1:33.4 | The book was given to him by an ex-hard Russian no-woman named Russell Objev. |
| 1:38.8 | And the book is important because the text in it is often identical to that in the protocols |
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