Protocols of Zion (film)

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For the original book published in 1903, see The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Director Levin (left) discusses the popularity of the book with (former) National Alliance leader Shaun Walker

The Protocols of Zion is a 2005 documentary film by Marc Levin about a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the United States in the wake of 9-11. 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 book published over 100 years ago, purporting to be the Jews' master plan to rule the world. Discredited as a hoax by The Times of London in 1921 ^[1], The Protocols were a crucial influence on Hitler, and had fuelled hatred, violence, and ultimately genocide attempts through the first half of the twentieth century.

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, Christian evangelists, White nationalists, Kabbalist rabbis, Holocaust survivors, and Frank Weltner, the founder of the surprisingly popular Jew Watch web site.