The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or
The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion is an
antisemitic fabricated text purporting to describe a
Jewish plan for global domination. The forgery was first published in
Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. According to the claims made by some of its publishers, the
Protocols are the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting where Jewish leaders discussed their goal of global Jewish
hegemony by subverting the morals of
Gentiles, and by controlling the press and the world's economies.