A Rumor about the Jews: Reflections on Anti-Semitism and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Book

The book does a great job describing and explaining the Protocols. Bronner traces the beginnings of the Protocols, and its popularity and growth from Czarist Russia. He ably describes the myriad inconsistencies and self-defeating nature of the Jewish cabal's supposed plan to rule the world. Most interesting to me was his description of *why* the Protocols appeals to the people that it appeals to.
However, the author uses a scapegoat of his own, mentioning numerous times how antisemitism most easily finds (and found) a home on the right. This is problematic as he touts fascists repeatedly as supporters of the Protocols - and on a left-right dichotomy, fascists would surely be on the left side - *not* the right. Control of industry and government is a hallmark of the left, not the right. He also mentions how the Nazis found scapegoats and an ideology bolstered by the Protocols. Yes, the National *Socialists*...on the right he tells us.
It's well-written, and if for not throwing away so much credibility on this repeated mistake, it would be an overall better book. Making political points isn't the main thrust of this work, but conflating the right with antisemitism so much distracts from the book. Written as an unbiased and down-the-middle book, it would have easily earned three stars, possibly four stars, but as it is, with such an issue, it receives two from me.