This is one of the notorious fabrications purporting to be a report of a series of 24-27 meetings held at Basel, Switzerland in 1897 at the time of the first Zionist Congress. The plans were said to have been worked out whereby Jews and Freemasons were to disrupt the entire Christian civilization and erect a world state ruled by Jews and Freemasons. The spurious character of the Protocols were revealed in 1921 by Philip Graves who noted their resemblance to a satire by Maurice Joly on Napoleon published in 1864. Subsequent investigation by historian Vladimir Bursteff revealed the Protocols were forgeries by the Russian secret police from the Joly satire, Hermann Goedsche's novel Biarritz, and other sources.
