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Maurice Joly

French satirist and lawyer (1829–1878)

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Nov 29, 2025
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how were the protocols of the elders of zion proven fradulent and a forgery and by who?

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was proven a literary forgery largely through plagiarism analysis and courtroom testimony: The Times of London in 1921 showed large sections were copied from Mauric...

Oct 16, 2025
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What are the historical origins of the Khazarian Mafia conspiracy theory?

The “Khazarian Mafia” conspiracy theory springs from a blend of medieval history, 19th‑ and 20th‑century antisemitic forgeries, and modern political mythmaking: the medieval conversion narrative about...

Dec 20, 2025

Which investigators and scholars exposed the Protocols as a forgery and what evidence did they present?

A sustained campaign of journalistic investigation, court testimony and scholarship established that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a literary forgery: early exposés by Lucien Wolf, Philip Gra...

Dec 20, 2025

How did the British newspaper The Times and journalist Philip Graves contribute to debunking the Protocols?

The British newspaper The Times and its Constantinople correspondent Philip Graves played a pivotal role in publicly exposing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a literary forgery in 1921 by demon...

Dec 7, 2025

What role did court cases (e.g., Berne trial, 1935 Wise v. Schwartzbard) play in proving the Protocols were fabricated?

Court cases—most famously the Bern (Berne) trial of 1933–1935—put the Protocols of the Elders of Zion under sustained public, expert and legal scrutiny and produced judicial findings that the text is ...