The international-Jew conspiracy framework predated the Protocols by decades
Evidence
Though the “Protocols” served to substantiate the menace of the “International Jew,” his entry into the stream of American nativism was largely independent of such exotic documents. ‘I’wice before 1920 this world-wide power, conspiring against all nations, had invaded American imaginations: once during the “battle of the standards” in the 1890’s, again (on a more limited scale) during the Frank Case on the eve of the World War. At both times factors that reappeared in 1920 had contributed to the concept. Both the nineties and 1914 were periods of depression, in which the countryside suffered at least as much as the city from impersonal economic forces of international proportions. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1697
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Protocols circulated widely only from 1919, decades after forgery — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 612; World-conspiracy legends existed in mass circulation before the Protocols appeared. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 285; Anti-Jewish politics organized internationally in the 1880s — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2006 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- World-conspiracy legends existed in mass circulation before the Protocols appeared.
#corroborates(0.90) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 285 - Medieval and modern antisemitism are linked by the conspiratorial Jewish world-power myth
#corroborates(0.85) - Anti-Jewish politics organized internationally in the 1880s
#corroborates(0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2006 - The Protocols circulated widely only from 1919, decades after forgery
#qualifies(0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 612 - European conspiratorial anti-Jewish superstition was preceded by earlier secret-society panics.
#corroborates(0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2149