[Originally posted at www.trans-int.blogspot.com]

 
[At the close of "The Parallel Universe", I alluded to anti-Semites who allow that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion might be a forgery, but insist that the content is, nonetheless, "true". These are the pioneers of what has become the "fake but accurate" argument. One such is the increasingly prominent anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist who goes by the name of "Israel Shamir" - although, according to investigations conducted by Searchlight Magazine, since 2001 his legal name is Jöran Jermas. "If the Protocols would have no relation to reality, they probably wouldn't be as popular as they are," Shamir writes, "The Jews are sufficiently powerful to dream of domination, and some do." Now, Shamir/Jermas has received a ringing endorsement from a leading "Middle East specialist" of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). The SPÖ is, along with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), one of Austria's two major political formations. The Austrian writer Karl Pfeifer has the details. - JR]