Documentary 'Protocols of Zion' shows old lies never die - Arts and Entertainment

Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin first heard about the re-emergence of an old, long-disproved forgery in a conversation with an Egyptian cabbie in New York shortly after 9/11. The cabbie told Levin that no Jews had died in the 9/11 attacks because they had been warned not to go to work in the twin towers that day. The cabbie told him it was all written in the book "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Of course, Jews did die in the 9/11 attacks and "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is an early twentieth century forgery that purports to outline a plan by Jewish leaders to control the world. Director Marc Levin, a secular Jew who grew up in New Jersey and now lives in New York, was startled and intrigued by the taxi driver's claims. Levin set out to make a film about why this old fake had resurfaced, and what that might mean for a post 9/11 world. The result is his documentary film, "Protocols of Zion," which takes us on Levin's personal journey to uncover the answers to those questions. Along the way, the film moves beyond that one document and turns into a larger investigation into rising religious and ethnic intolerance after 9/11.