"Protocols" found at guard post in entrance to Congressional building. And in academic databases.

The Washington Post reports:

U.S. Capitol Police suspended an officer Monday after a copy of an infamous antisemitic tract was found near a Capitol Hill security post Sunday, alarming a congressional aide who viewed the document in plain sight at the checkpoint. 

Photographs provided to The Washington Post show a printed copy of the Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion on a table inside an entrance to the Longworth House Office Building.

The Post provided the photographs to the Capitol Police on Monday morning and requested comment. The department said Monday evening that acting chief Yogananda D. Pittman had suspended an officer pending an investigation “after anti-Semitic reading material was discovered near his work area on Sunday.”

It is unclear from the photographs who was in possession of the document, which was held together by a binder clip with its pages tattered and stained. A date stamp indicated it was printed in January 2019. 

It looks like the printout was well worn and referenced often. Was it passed around from person to person? 

A person whose job is to protect US lawmakers spent his or her spare time reading about how Jews are trying to take over the world. 

This is truly disturbing. Unfortunately, it is not very surprising. Antisemitism has become fashionable again across the political spectrum. 

Here is the abstract of a virulently antisemitic "research paper" - published by a now defunct academic journal and indexed today at ResearchGate - that ties the Protocols to today's Zionism, with copious footnotes. 

(h/t YMedad)

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