Fact check
Is it true: Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
No — this has been debunked.
The forgery is documented in extraordinary detail. Philip Graves's 1921 London Times series (August 16-18, 1921) placed the Protocols side-by-side with Joly's Dialogue in the Hell, showing dozens of passages copied verbatim with only "Jew" substituted for "Napoleon III." Subsequent scholarship (Herman Bernstein, Norman Cohn, Pierre-André Taguieff) traced the forgery to the Russian Okhrana (secret police) circa 1903, likely authored by Matvei Golovinski. In the 1993 Russia v Pamyat case, a Moscow court formally ruled the Protocols "an antisemitic forgery." Every reputable institution including the Library of Congress, every major historian, and the Russian Federation court system concur.
The claim
A fabricated antisemitic text, first published in Russia in 1903, claiming to document a Jewish plan for world domination. Extensively proven a forgery — plagiarized from Maurice Joly's 1864 Dialogue
Key evidence
Believers cite "verification through events"
1921 Graves exposé: verbatim plagiarism from Joly
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