Michael Lerner, The Socialism of Fools: Anti-Semitism
on the Left (Oakland: Tikkun Books, 1992). An argument that contemporary anti-Semitism is real and
underestimated by the left, and an effort to make a distinction between
anti-Semitism and legitimate criticism of Israel.
Esther Kaplan, “Antisemitism after September 11th,” The
Public Eye magazine, Vol. 16, No. 2, (Summer 2002).
New Internationalist Magazine, Special Issue on Judeophobia.
Chip Berlet, "ZOG Ate My Brains." New
Internationalist (London), Issue 372 (October 2004).
Norman Cohn Traces the Connections
Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide:
The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (London: Serif, [1967] 1996).
_____, The
Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists
of the Middle Ages, revised and expanded (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, [1957]
1970), with the original subtitle reading: Revolutionary Messianism
in Medieval and Reformation Europe and its Bearing on Modern Totalitarian
Movements.
_____, Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come:
The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith,
revised and updated (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, [1993] 2001).
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
John Shelton Curtiss, An Appraisal of the Protocols of
Zion (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1942).
Walter Laqueur, Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme
Right in Russia (New York: HarperPerennial, 1993). Traces early use of the Protocols.
James Ridgeway, Blood in the Face, rev. 2nd, ed.
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1995). Shows how Protocols are incorporated into organized white
supremacy.
Stephen Eric Bronner, A Rumor about the Jews:
Reflections on Antisemitism and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
(New York: St. Martins, 2000). A
debunking of the Protocols and an exploration of their ongoing appeal and use
by the right.
Cesare G. De Michelis, The Non-Existent Manuscript: A
Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion, trans. Richard Newhouse, English
ed., rev. and expanded, Studies in Antisemitism (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska
Press, and Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism,
the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, 2004). Reconstructs what the original undiscovered forgery may have looked like
using textual analysis of several versions.
Will Eisner, The Plot: The Secret Story of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion (New York: WW Norton, 2005). An illustrated history of the
invention of the fraud in the 19th century and its circulation across the globe
in the century since.
Nazism and Apocalyptic Millenarianism and Millennialism
James M. Rhodes, The Hitler Movement:
A Modern Millenarian Revolution (Stanford, Calif: Hoover Institution Press,
Stanford University, 1980).
Robert Wistrich, Hitler’s Apocalypse:
Jews and the Nazi Legacy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985).
Robert Ellwood, “Nazism as a Millennialist
Movement,” in Catherine Wessinger, (ed.), Millennialism, Persecution,
and Violence: Historical Cases (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ.
Press, 2000), pp. 241-260.
David Redles, Hitler’s
Millennial Reich: Apocalyptic Belief and the Search for Salvation (New York:
New York Univ. Press, 2005).
Stereotyping, Scapegoating, and Demonization
Lise Noël, Intolerance: A General Survey, trans. Arnold
Bennett (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 1994).
James A. Aho, This Thing of
Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press,
1994).
Colette Guillaumin, Racism,
Sexism, Power and Ideology (London: Routledge,
1995).
Elizabeth Young–Bruehl, The Anatomy of Prejudices
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1996).
Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan (New York:
Vintage, 1996).
David Norman Smith, “The Social Construction of Enemies:
Jews and the Representation of Evil,” Sociological Theory, 1996, vol.
14, no. 3, pp. 203-240.
Robert S. Wistrich, (ed.), Demonizing the Other:
Antisemitism, Racism, and Xenophobia (London: Routledge, [1999] 2003).
Evan R. Harrington, “The Social Psychology of Hatred,” Journal
of Hate Studies, Vol. 3, No.1, 2003/04, http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/againsthate/journal3/GHS110.pdf.
Conspiracism
Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style
in American Politics,” in The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other
Essays (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965).
David Brion Davis, (ed.), The Fear of
Conspiracy: Images of Un–American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1972).
Richard O. Curry and Thomas M. Brown
(eds.), Conspiracy: The Fear of Subversion in American History (New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972).
George Johnson, Architects of Fear:
Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics (Los Angeles: Tarcher/Houghton
Mifflin, 1983).
Frank P. Mintz, The Liberty Lobby and the American
Right: Race, Conspiracy, and Culture (Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood, 1985).
George E. Marcus, (ed.), Paranoia Within
Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago,
1991).
David H. Bennett, The Party of Fear: The
American Far Right from Nativism to the Militia Movement (New York: Vintage
Books, revised [1988] 1995).
H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
(Brooklyn, N.Y.: Lawrence Hill Books, 1992).
Patricia A. Turner, I Heard it Through the Grapevine,
Rumor in African-American Culture (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press,
1993.
Joel Kovel, Red Hunting in the Promised Land:
Anticommunism and the Making of America (New York, Basic Books,
1994).
Daniel Pipes, Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes,
and Where It Comes From (New York: Free Press, 1997).
Daniel Pipes, The Hidden Hand: Middle East
Fears of Conspiracy (New York: St. Martins, 1998).
Jerry Lembcke,
The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, And The Legacy Of Vietnam (New
York: New York Univ. Press, 1998).
Mark Fenster, Conspiracy
Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999).
Nancy Lusignan Schultz, (ed.), Fear Itself: Enemies
Real & Imagined in American Culture (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue Univ.
Press, 1999).
Chip Berlet and
Matthew N. Lyons, Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (New York: Guiford, 2000).
Robert Alan Goldberg, Enemies Within: The Culture of
Conspiracy in Modern America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press,
2001).
Michael Barkun, A Culture of
Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Berkeley: 2003).
Jerry Lembcke,
CNN’s Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam’s Last Great Myth (Lanham, Md.: Rowman
& Littlefield, 2003)
Significant Periods of Populist Public Conspiracism in the United States
1797–1800 Freemasons/Illuminati (Europe)
1798–1802 Freemasons/Illuminati (U.S.)
1820–1844 AntiMasonry (Early
Nativism)
1834–1860 Catholic Immigrants
(Nativism–Know Nothings)
1830–1866 Slave Power Conspiracy
1873–1905 Plutocrats and Bankers
(“The Octopus”)
1903–1920 Jews (Protocols-Russia)
1919–1935 The International Jew
(Protocols-Britain & U.S.)
1919–1925 Anarchists and
Bolsheviks
1932–1946 Bankers, Liberal
Collectivists, Reds, and Jews
1940–1950 Reds and the End Times
1950–1960 Liberal
Internationalists & Reds
1958–1968 Civil Rights Conspiracy
1960–1970 Secret Kingmakers
1963–1970 Assassination
Conspiracy Theories
1960–1980 Sex, Drugs, and Rock
& Roll
1970–1990 Secret Elites
1975– Secular Humanism: Feminists
and Homosexuals
1986– 1990 Secret Team
(Iran-Contra)
1990– New World Order
2001– Bush/Cheney Coordinated
9/11 Attacks
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