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The Pittsburgh Press

Pittsburgh, PA

January 8, 1967

(full article in images)

Scottsbluff Daily Star-Herald

Scottsbluff, Nebraska

Saturday, October 09, 1937

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4414513m.item

This is the earliest state-level, media political document I found proposing a Jewish restoration to Palestine, serving as a tactical, unfulfilled fake promise to secure local military allies during Napoleon’s siege of Acre.

Translation:
POLITICS.
TURKEY.
Constantinople, 28 Germinal [April 17, 1799].
BONAPARTE has caused a proclamation to be published, in which he invites all the Jews of Asia and Africa to come and range themselves under his banners in order to re-establish ancient Jerusalem. He has already armed a great number of them, and their battalions are threatening Aleppo.
The inhabitants of the surroundings of Damascus are in insurrection against the Porte.
The Grand Seignior [the Sultan] is to depart immediately for Syria, in order to command, in person, against Bonaparte.
The Grand Vizier, at the head of a considerable body of janissaries, is also to set out at the beginning of Floréal [late April/early May].

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richmond, Virginia

Thursday, October 21, 1982

The following conclusions are, therefore, forced upon any reader of the two books who has studied Nilus’s account of the origin of the Protocols and has some acquaintance with Russian history in the years preceding the revolution of 1905-1906:

1. The Protocols are largely a paraphrase of the book here provisionally called the “Geneva Dialogues.”
2. They were designed to foster the belief among Russian Conservatives, and especially in Court circles, that the prime cause of discontent among the politically minded elements in Russia was not the repressive policy of the bureaucracy, but a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. They thus served as a weapon against the Russian Liberals, who urged the Czar to make certain concessions to the intelligentsia.
3. The Protocols were paraphrased very hastily and carelessly.
4. Such portions of the Protocols as were not derived from the Geneva Dialogues were probably supplied by the Okhrana, which organization very possibly obtained them from the many Jews it employed to spy on their co-religionists.

So much for the Protocols. They have done harm not so much, in the writer’s opinion, by arousing anti-Jewish feeling, which is older than the Protocols and will persist in all countries where there is a Jewish problem until that problem is solved; rather, they have done harm by persuading all sorts of mostly well-to-do people that every recent manifestation of discontent on the part of the poor is an unnatural phenomenon, a factitious agitation caused by a secret society of Jews.