The protocols of the elders of Zion was an interesting read to say the least, and within seconds it is impeccably easy to see why this literature is controversial. If there was one word I would use to describe this text, it would be fearmongering. With every protocol, paragraph, sentence, and even down to words alone this text has but one clear aim: To incite fear.
The content of it follows as the title suggests, being protocols being given by the elders of Zion (The highest of Jewish leadership), is a set of instructions given by the highest ranking Jewish officials to all other Jews so that they make take over Europe. It is read in the perspective of those “Other Jews”, and is a set of instructions as to how to subjugate and take over the world through a series of strategies and subtleties. The primary focus of these strategies is done through economic means, such as hoarding material wealth (Gold) and manipulating economies in more deliberate ways. Another section of the book details that it is imperative that Jews must situate themselves with a countries legal system in order to infiltrate and subjugate legal particulars. It seems as if most of this is a general guideline that is supposed to be made available to all Jews, instead of a specific set of instructions for every single one, as it describes the process of instilling fake leaders, something that not every single Jew would be required for.
The legitimate fearmongering part of the text is spread throughout it, and to reiterate, imbibes every protocol, paragraph, sentence, and word. Each word I imagine is painstakingly chosen, each sentence carefully posed, and each paragraph carefully structured as to build suspense, anxiety, and above all, fear. It speaks of the non-Jewish people, otherwise known as the “Gentile”, “Goyim”, or “Goy”, in a manner similar to animals at worst, and slaves at best. It treats them as a nuisance, something in which will be eradicated in their religious and righteous fury. This, coupled with the several strategies that mimic real world events, would be enough to scare the hell out of anyone reading this that didn’t have adequate understanding of it’s providence. It speaks of weakening economies, liberalism, and other such progressive movements that occur naturally over a society’s progression, and in fact have appeared in ours. The text is not, in fact, a transcript of an order given by the elders of Zion to the Jews to take over the western world, but an attempt at inciting racial prejudice against Jews by insinuating that they were attempting to kill off all non-Jews, inciting a sense of urgency in the fearful, racially prejudiced, or both.