The Conspiracy against Community

Tracing the Popularity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Contemporary Egypt

Bibliographic Data

ID12662012
AuthorsGötz Nordbruch (corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume9
Issue1
Pages71-90
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJewish Culture and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1462-169X • E-ISSN: 2167-9428
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1462169x.2007.10512067
OpenAlexW2093952382
LanguageEN
References cited9

The warning about conspiracies is a frequent topic in Egyptian public discourse. Recent debates about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion exemplarily link various scenarios of threat that are identified with the influence of Jewish hidden hands. This article reconstructs diverse facets of these assumed plots and places them in the context of the ideologies of community that have shaped modern Egyptian political culture. The imagining of an abstract and universal enemy that challenges the very existence of the Arab community can be explained as a result of a distorted intellectual appropriation of ongoing social and political changes and transformations

Adversary · Appropriation · Computer security · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy

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