Abstract EN:

In a difficult social, economic and political context, the jewish community of great britain, from 1970 onwards, was often accused of jeopardizing the stability of the country. In 1920, the publication of the protocols of the elders of zion bore out, for some antisemites this accusation. Widely commented upon in the press, that antisemitic forgery cooked up by the russian secret service to bring discredit upon the jews and to be used for internal political manoeuvring was supposed to expose the scheme drawn up by the jews to dominate the world. Although it was proved in 1921 that the protocols were a forgery, up to now 87 editions have been published in great britain. Based on the most hackneyed stereotypes and on a skilful point of view technique, that book was exploited in many writings that aimed at proving the actuality of the jewish plot. Along with the exploitation of the protocols, these writings claim to give further evidence of the plot by gleaning examples here and there in occult history, in the bible, and in contemporary world affairs. In spite of an apparent logic, the method used by the antisemites can easily be exposed : a hotch-potch of historical facts, a constant use of anachronisms, garbled and falsified quotations. The distortion of part of disraeli's work further illustrates this method. Disraeli, a philosemite, whose racial ideas are quite debatable, is set up as a " prophet " of the jewish world plot by some antisemites.