Tiger, Still Burning Bright?
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“For the enemy to be recognised and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.”
Umberto Eco (The Prague Cemetery)
(February 16, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an alleged ‘secret-plan’ by Jewish leaders for world domination, took the occident by storm in the early 20th Century. Even after it was exposed as a forgery perpetrated by the Tsarist secret police (a sham culled from two works of literature – a French satire and a German novel), it continued to excite the fanatical imagination of anti-Semitics and became a major influence on Adolf Hitler.
