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exposing the origins of antisemitism

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MODERN HISTORY

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Title page of Sergei Nilus's 1905 Russian book The Great in the Small, which reprinted the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

How a forgery first printed in Russia in 1903 spread a false claim of a Jewish plan to rule the world, and how it was exposed.

The Balfour Declaration, 1917

Typed Foreign Office letter dated November 2nd, 1917, addressed to Lord Rothschild and signed by Arthur James Balfour.

The 1917 British letter supporting a Jewish national home in Palestine: what it said, why Britain sent it, how it was received, and the myths.

The Haavara Agreement, 1933

Black-and-white 1933 photo: smiling newly arrived immigrants from Germany, in coats and a hat, stand at a desk while a clerk in glasses checks their papers, with shelves of binders behind them.

How a 1933 deal with Nazi Germany let German Jews take part of their savings to Palestine, why Jews fought over it, and the myths.

The Holocaust

Black-and-white photo of uniformed SA men with boycott signs at the entrance of a Jewish-owned shop in Berlin, April 1, 1933.

How centuries of antisemitic myths led to Nazi laws, violence and the murder of six million European Jews between 1933 and 1945.

The Birth of Modern Israel, 1939–1950

David Ben-Gurion and council members at the 1948 declaration ceremony in Tel Aviv.

The 1947 UN vote, the 1948 war and two displacements, Palestinian and Jewish: what happened, what historians debate, and which claims are myths.

October 7, 2023 

The fire-scorched wall of an empty house in Kfar Aza, near the Gaza border, with dry weeds in front and a pale sky above.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 hostages on a Jewish holiday.

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