Protocols Of Zion (DVD)

Director Mark Levin explores the rise of anti-Semitism after 9/11/2001. He starts with the myth (re: lies) that there were no Jews killed in the WTC attacks because they all had received anonymous phone calls from Mossad (Israeli intelligence) the night before warning them of the attack, which was also carried out by Israel and not Al Qaeda.

Levin is quickly directed to an old book called "The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion", which you can even find online thanks to Neo-Nazis. The protocols were actually written by Zsarist secret police in Russia as part of a smear campain. Nobody in Russia bought into the bullshit but elsewhere in Europe it caught fire and although the book is a total fabrication it is still quoted by Anti-Semites today. Levin tries to keep the movie light-hearted but is constantly faced down with ugly reality, the fact is that people who hate Jews REALY HATE JEWS and they are incapable of rational thought. It borders on comic irony because the white, Neo-Nazi, theArab-American street punks and Black Militants all agree on the evils of the Jewish people AND the Protocols. This is juxtaposed with a Jewish woman who is marching in an anti-war rally who Levin interviews with a clearly anti-Semitic sign behind her. When she's asked about the sign she says that she doesn't care because she hates Bush so much.

Levin is fair and brave. He goes right to the various sources of hate and talks to them directly; he goes to the headquarters of the White Supremicist movement (the guy shows Levin his jack-boots with custom swastika lug soles), he talks to Black militants and he goes to a Muslem center that is holding an anti-Israel rally. He asks serious questions and receives serious and sad answers.

This is a good film. It makes you question some things that you believe. It is also painful because when people hate, they willingly believe things that they know are lies. It is a stark look at people and prejudice.

It's worth your time.