Seeking truth and challenging prejudice : confronting race hatred through the South African Greyshirt case of Levy v Von Moltke
Lisa Miranda Sarzin · OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars (University of Technology Sydney) · 2017
truth' is seemingly constrained or 'archived'.To provide a current example of the use of the Protocols: in July 2011, a Muslim Cleric in Khartoum gave a Friday afternoon sermon that was aired on Sudan TV (Middle East Media Research Institute TV (MEMRITV) 2011).8 In the clip, the Cleric holds up a copy of the Protocols and says 'These people, the seed of Satan, whom we hear today -where have they come from, and who created them?They were created by this book: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.'The eerie similarity of this speech to that given by the Defendants in the Greyshirt libel action in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1934, is striking.In both instances, lies were held up publicly as truth.In both instances, the Protocols was used as documentary 'proof' of a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the existing order by monopolising industry and instigating wars and propagating division.As has been the case in the past, the 8 The sermon was translated and subtitled by the Middle East Media Research Institute (Middle East Media Research Institute TV (MEMRITV) 2011).