On this sad day, Nov. 22nd, the 48th anniversary of the JFK assassination, the subject of conspiracy inevitably comes up.

Today we harken back to the original conspiracy theory, "blame it on the Jews."  Our film "Protocols of Zion" explored the resurgence of anti-semitism in the wake of 9/11.  Now Umberto Eco has just come out with a new book, "The Prague Cemetery," which is a novel about a fictional forger in Paris who creates the infamous, "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which purported to be the minutes of the secret Jewish Cabal which supposedly met in the Prague Cemetery where it plotted to control the world.  An obvious and odious fraud, still it was believed and spread by folks from Henry Ford to Adolph Hitler.  Now Eco brings his novelist's imagination to explore the mind and milieu that gave birth to this grand forgery, this poisonous and insane conspiracy that refuses to die.

Watch the trailer for "Protocols of Zion" here:

"Protocols of Zion" on Blowback TV

and read the New York Times review of Eco's book here:

The Prague Cemetery