Source: commons.wikimedia.org
Incitement to hatred
The book was inaccurately listed in the document as “Entdecktes Judentum”, which should correctly be “Entdecktes Judenthum”, translated as “Judaism Unmasked”. Its author is the German orientalist scholar Johann Andreas Eisenmenger (1654-1704). The Czechoslovak secret police obtained facsimiles for printing, to which a Czech preface was written. Everything was to be translated into English and published. The book has also been used in history by various anti-Semites, and it is interesting that the communist State Security also found in it the revelation of “Jewish aggression”. Moreover, this happened in the context of debates about cooperation in the armed struggle against Israel. The victim of the discussed assassination, Jiří Pelikán, was of Jewish origin and was branded a Zionist by his enemies.
„Further information in the documents constitutes substantial evidence of the StB’s criminal practices.“
Operation Pelikán – opinion of Section 36 of Czechoslovak intelligence on the proposed physical liquidation of Jiří Pelikán with the help of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Morbacher, Lubomír (2019), Minulost.cz
Further Reading / Sources
Operation Pelikán – opinion of Section 36 of Czechoslovak intelligence on the proposed physical liquidation of Jiří Pelikán with the help of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Morbacher, Lubomír (2019), Minulost.cz
Watching the Jackals. Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries
Richterová, Daniela (2024), Washington: Georgetown University Press