Editing Pseudohistory (section)

==== Antisemitic pseudohistory ====
{{see also|Blood libel}}
[[File:1934 Protocols Patriotic Pub.jpg|thumb|upright|American edition of ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' from 1934]]
''[[The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion]]'' is a fraudulent work purporting to show a historical conspiracy for world domination by Jews.<ref name="ushmm.org">{{Cite web|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion|title=Protocols of the Elders of Zion|website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org|access-date=May 28, 2020}}</ref> The work was conclusively proven to be a forgery in August 1921, when ''[[The Times]]'' revealed that extensive portions of the document were directly plagiarized from [[Maurice Joly]]'s 1864 satirical dialogue ''[[The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu]]'',<ref>{{cite journal| author = Philip Graves| title = The truth about "The Protocols"| journal = The Times |date=August 16–18, 1921| location = London| url = https://archive.org/details/truthaboutthepro00londiala}}
</ref> as well as [[Hermann Goedsche]]'s 1868 anti-Semitic novel ''Biarritz''.<ref name = "translated97">{{Citation | last = Segel | first = Binjamin W | title = A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion | editor-link = Richard S. Levy| editor-last = Levy | editor-first = Richard S | page = 97 | year = 1996 | orig-year = 1926 | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | isbn = 0-8032-9245-7}}.</ref>

The [[Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry|Khazar theory]] is an academic [[fringe theory]] that postulates the belief that the bulk of [[History of the Jews in Europe|European Jewry]] is of [[Central Asia]]n ([[Turkic peoples|Turkic]]) origin. In spite of the [[genetic studies on Jews|mainstream academic consensus]] which conclusively rejects it, this theory has been promoted in [[Antisemitism|Anti-Semitic]] and some [[Anti-Zionism|Anti-Zionist]] circles, they argue that Jews are an alien element in both Europe and [[History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel|Palestine]].

[[Holocaust denial]] in particular and [[genocide denial]] in general are widely categorized as pseudohistory.<ref name="Shermer"/>{{rp|237}}<ref name="Lipstadt">{{cite book|last=Lipstadt|first=Deborah E.|date=1994|title=Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory|location=New York |publisher=Plume|page=[https://archive.org/details/denyingholocaust00lips/page/215 215]|isbn=0-452-27274-2|url=https://archive.org/details/denyingholocaust00lips/page/215}}</ref> Major proponents of Holocaust denial include [[David Irving]] and others, who argue that the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], the [[Holodomor]], the [[Armenian genocide]], the [[Sayfo|Assyrian genocide]], the [[Greek genocide]] and [[Genocides in history|other genocides]] did not occur, or accounts of them were greatly exaggerated.<ref name="Lipstadt"/>