The Epistemological Dimension of Antisemitism in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Its Role in Shaping the Clash of Civilizations

البُعد الإبستمولوجي لمعادات السامية في بروتوكولات الصهيونية ودورها في تشكيل صدام الحضارات

Abstract

This study investigates the epistemology of the Zionist Protocols and their cognitive role in shaping the clash of civilisations and antisemitism. Its central premise is that epistemic knowledge ostensibly, a tool for condemning oppression has been transformed into an ideological instrument that deepens oppression and civilizational conflict, and obstructs dialogue, particularly between Arab and Western civilisations. This transformation has produced a cognitive and psychological barrier foreclosing the possibility of dialogue, a condition reinforced by the political and media instrumentalisation of the Holocaust within Zionist discourse. The study aims to analyse the epistemological dimension of antisemitism in the Protocols and to demonstrate its function as a tool for constructing difference with the other and deepening civilizational division. It further seeks to explain how antisemitism was made a strategic entry point for producing a global civilizational rupture. The study adopts an analytical-textual method, based on a critical reading of the Zionist Protocols and their connection to the historical and political context underlying the construction of anti-Semitic discourse. The study concludes that this discourse is not the outcome of a people's social suffering, but rather a means of advancing an artificially constructed project, deployed in the service of Zionist strategy and aimed at reshaping Western consciousness toward the East.