The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

This has been on my wish list for years. It is a great read. Share this with your kids like I have.

Love the cartoon story. Makes it easier to understand

My son came home from high school a few months ago asking what "Mien Kampf" was all about, and I didn't really know what to tell him. Around the same time I read an article by Jeff Nyquist that alleged that Russian intelligence had created a hoax called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which Hitler referenced in his book. Somewhat disbelieving, I decided to investigate this Russian connection, which lead me to this book, "The Plot."The point of "The Plot" is that Russian intelligence fabricated "The Protocols" as a hoax to manipulate the policies of the Tsar, and that the "The Protocols" were fashioned after "The Dialogue in Hell". In fact, whole passages of "The Dialogue" were lifted and inserted into "The Protocols," obviously plagiarized.This book is written in cartoon format, so it is very engaging, especially for young people.I wish I had known about this book back in high school so I could have brushed aside some of the conspiracy theories I heard about the Jewish people. This book lays the foundation to understand why the Nazis, Skinheads, Aryans, Islamists, and all other haters of Jews are so irrational about Israel.The Plot shows that The Protocols is a big fat lie that foments hate, and that this lie has resulted in persecutions, tortures, rapes, and desoltating wars.I wish everyone in American would read this book, especially our young people.

"The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is Will Eisner's illustrated debunking of the infamous made-up book "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."For readers who have not read Eisner's work before, they will be amazed at his illustrations. Each one is emotive and powerful. In other books, his story-telling stands out as well. This book, however, tells less of a story. It is a collection of vignettes associated with specific years and historic figures associated with the fraudulent book.The vignettes start with French author Maurice Joly's suicide. One of his books was plagiarized to fill out "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." The vignettes end with Eisner himself learning that no matter how many times historians, reporters, and researchers try, the fraud continues.One of the vignettes focuses on a reporter from The Times debunking the book. In it, selections from a book by French author Maurice Joly are compared side-by-side to what is in "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." This portion of the book falls a bit flat because it is presented less graphically than the rest of the book and it drags on for quite a while.Facsimiles of actual book covers are included throughout Eisner's work as he attempts to show that no matter how much debunking occurs, anti-Semites will still use this fraud as a means to justify their prejudices.One knock on the book is that his main source, Mikhail Lepekhine, a well-respected Russian historian accessing tsarist archives after the Cold War, fingers the tsar's secret police in France as the origin behind fraud, when the origin is still in some dispute.The book includes an index, an page for additional resources, and an partial selection of references.

The Protocols, as other reviewers have noted, is a persistent libel, a conspiracy theory that seduces the innocent and comforts the already committed anti-Semite who could care less whether it can be proven or not. The Big Lie's seductiveness is that it dovetails beautifully with some cherished Judaeophobic myths...the cabal of international Jewish bankers (the pre-eminence of the Rothschilds) and media manipulators led by some kind of ritualistic clique of rabbis (Elders of Zion) to ruin the Gentile financial markets and gain control for the evil Jewish coterie who would then dominate the world. This fabrication, as loopy as it may sound to anyone with an open mind, has managed to persist in a world where Israel is considered but the latest manifestation of this evil Plot.Books have been written that have decisively debunked this screed, but so complicated is the evolution of the forgery that the average reader cannot or will not devote the time and effort to get into all the excruciating detailed twists and turns of how it was perpetrated.Thus, Eisner's graphic novel technique is perfect for reaching the larger audience that the expose requires. Even if the devotees of the Protocols won't read and digest Eisner's riposte, it is a valuable tool to assist the enlightened or committed to make their case.Is is not a "novel" per se, but rather an expose. That said, there is a good dose of lively drama and character development, done in the mood-evoking "dark" style that made Eisner the dean of the graphic novel.The Plot accomplishes what a score of well-reasoned academic texts can not. It sticks it to the heirs of the Hitlerites and the current day Islamisist Judeophobes.It amazes me that those who cry crocodile tears over a "stolen" Palestinian homelandbarely supress a yawn when one points out that the Palestinian Authority, so recently "reconciled" with the Jew-baiting Hamas, has condoned the dissemination of the Protocols. Perhaps those who think the Palestinians have pure motives should read this book.

Will Eisner's last graphic novel is a curio, not a gesture of fantasy but rather an act of historical reconstruction, tracing the story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Tsarist fabrication that was picked up by antisemites ranging from the German Nazis to Henry Ford to more recent Arab propagandists bent on demonizing "world Jewry." The book is a noble struggle against the persistence of irrational bigotry. But "The Plot" lacks any emotional wallop; genre and subject have not been suitably matched.

Un libro fenomenale che racconta in modo semplice ed effettivo la storia del Protocollo dei savi di Sion, celebre falso documentale creato dai servizi zaristi. Documento segreto che racconta di una fantomatica cospirazione ebraica per prendere il controllo del mondo. E' stato evidentemente e rapidamente screditato ma nonostante tutto ha continuato ad influenzare e promuovere movimenti antisemitici in tutto il mondo. Raccontato e illustrato da Eisner è facilmente leggibile.

What a final way to wind up one's work on earth. It is Eisner's last gift to us. Thank you Amazon India and the seller. Thank you.

Creo que es la mejor manera de acercarse a este tema, los protocolos de Sion, el señor Eisner sabía lo que hacía.

Just another master piece from the master himself.The book shade light on a long time joke (even though it is not funny at all) and a conspiracy.from the details of the story to the unique drawings of Will it is a fascinating book from the first to the last page.Thumbs up.

If you were ever curious about the myths of zionism & the elder scrolls then this is a well written & illustrated explaination by a master cartoonist.