 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in the Russian Empire in 1903, is a notorious forgery that pretends to detail a long-term Jewish plan for world domination.The origins of the document are shrouded in mystery and many theories have been proposed.The theory that had received the most support until recently was presented at the Berne Trial of 1933–1935, in which two Jewish organizations sued the Swiss distributors of the "Protocols".