P.A. OFFICIAL WEBSITE LINKS TO "PROTOCOLS"

U.S. group slams 'anti-Semitic' PA site: American-Jewish Anti-Defamation League says PA should withdraw rendition of 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' from official government Web site

TEL AVIV - Top American-Jewish group the Anti-Defamation League demanded on Wednesday that Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas remove a link on a Palestinian government Web site to an anti-Semitic forgery that details a false Jewish plan to take over the world.

An Arabic translation of “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” can be found in a section titled “The History of Zionism” on the Arabic version of the Web site of the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Information.

“Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should immediately have this document stricken from the Web site for which he is ultimately responsible and devote space to explaining the origins of this dastardly and dangerous piece,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement.

The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", written by a German in the 19th century, remains one of the most popular anti-Semitic myths today. The forgery details a false Jewish plot of world domination. Russia's secret police used it to stir up anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th century and Adolf Hitler used it to garner support during his propaganda war against Jews before he ordered them part of his “Final Solution.”