August 07, 2003
Culprits of the Protocols: An Update
by Jerome du Bois
(First, technical difficulties have delayed our thanks to Franklin Einspruch of artblog.net yesterday, and John Carlos Villani of the Arizona Republic today, for heading readers our way. So, thanks, and welcome, new readers. We invite you to visit our gallery as well.)
One of the installations we are working on is called Strangers to Reason: The Poison Flower: Culprits of the Protocols. It is about the mysteriously insidious persistence of the (often-debunked) anti-semitic forgery known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. (I won't link it, since any Googling brings up a depressingly long list.) Below, I've included four photographs of a working drawing -- a kind of timetable/bulletin board -- of our idea.
And for those who think this is some kind of discarded, paranoid hand-waving, check out the indefatigable, indispensable and always reliable Charles Johnson (littlegreenfootballs) today:
"A former Iraqi soldier who fought against the US in the first Gulf War, and was captured and imprisoned for two years in Saudia Arabia, is now an instructor at UC Berkeley, teaching Arabic -- and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This story definitely qualifies as the Outrage of the Day, showing once again the Saudi corruption of the US academy."
Go read it all, under "Outrage of the Day." But look at our pictures, too.
Update: We will be back in a few hours with an update on local arts coverage: who's doing it, and who ain't.
