Daniel Pipes describes the publication by The Arab Voice, an Arabic-language daily in Paterson NJ, of a serialization of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous late-19th century forgery by the Tsarist secret service purporting to document a boastful Jewish plan for world domination. The Protocols has an enduring legacy of being used to bolster and fuel anti-Semitism throughout the 20th century Western world, including its embrace by Hitler as a centerpiece justifying the Final Solution. While I do agree that moderate Arab-Americans, like the rest of us, ought to dissociate themselves from the anti-Semitism the Protocols embodies, I’d like to know more from The Arab Voice about why they are publishing this and how it is being framed before it is used as confirmation, as Pipes does, that “Arab and Muslim institutional life in the United States remains as radicalized after 9/11 as it was before” and that “Arab and Muslim institutions are now the primary advocates of anti-Semitism worldwide, including in the West.” This seems kneejerk inflammatory neocon rhetoric and — dare I say? — could be considered as irresponsible as publishing the Protocols. Do any FmH readers, perchance, read the print version of The Arab Voice (the offending piece is not in the online version)? How is the publication prefaced?
