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The Protocols of Zion is a 2005 documentary film by Jewish filmmaker Marc Levin about a resurgence of antisemitism in the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Armed with his camera and appearing on screen along with his subjects, Levin engages in a free-for-all dialogue with Arab Americans, Black nationalists, evangelists, White nationalists, Kabbalist rabbis, Holocaust survivors, and Frank Weltner, the founder of Jew Watch web site.

Levin's film draws its inspiration from an encounter he had in a New York taxi not long after 9/11, in which his driver, an Egyptian immigrant, made the claim that the Jews had been warned not to go to work at the World Trade Center on the day of the attack. He then said that "it's all written in the book," referring to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a 1903 book purporting to disclose the Jews' master plan to rule the world. Discredited as a hoax by The Times of London in 1921,^[1] The Protocols provided a crucial influence on Hitler's world views, and had fuelled hatred, violence, and ultimately genocide attempts through the first half of the twentieth century. Ads for the film show two stacks of books, visibly entitled Protocols of Zion, with smoke billowing out of the top portion of the left-hand stack. This looks much like actual pictures of the World Trade Center as the fire raged through it. The movie was made in 2005, 4 years after the WTC attack.

Reactions

The film received fair to good reviews from American film critics. The most common negative criticism was that although it elicited strong emotions, the film lacked focus.^[2] The film had an extremely limited theatrical release (four theaters at its widest) and grossed $178,875 domestically.^[3]

References

Marc Levin's work provides a courageous perspective on anti-antisemitism, defamation and hate in modern America, a subject many Americans today, both Jewish and non-Jewish rather not address. I had a personal experience with anti-semitism, defamation and hate directed at my family and me following the 9-11 attacks and witch hunt that followed. Many Americans, both Jewish and non-Jewish stood by and did nothing while my reputation was attacked in the most malicious and hateful forms, spreading lies online and in the media. Kudos to you Mr. Levin!

Anyone that might be interested, can find my webpage at my name, followed by a dotcom

Dominik Suter

See also

• Antisemitism
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• New antisemitism
• Pierre-André Taguieff (interviewed in the film)

External links

• The Protocols of Zion at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Site^{[dead link]}
• Protocols of Zion to air on Cinemax
• Brief review of Protocols of Zion, including a list of appeared guests^{[dead link]}
• Protocols of Zion (2005) on Box Office Mojo.
• Protocols of Zion on Rotten Tomatoes.