Douglas Reed (1895–1976) was a British journalist, playwright, novelist and author of a number of books of political analysis.

His book Insanity Fair (1938) was influential in publicising the state of Europe and the megalomania of Adolf Hitler before the Second World War. Beginning in the 1940s, and for the rest of his life, Reed became convinced that there existed a "hidden hand" governing World Affairs, and that this "hidden hand" was Jewish, though it involved some non-Jewish characters.

Reed believed in a long-term Zionist conspiracy to impose a world government on an enslaved humanity He was also staunchly anti-Communist, that there existed a "Supercapitalist - Communist - Zionist nexus", and once wrote that National Socialism was a "stooge or stalking horse" meant to further the aims of the "Communist Empire." , and believed that it enabled Zionism. Thus, when he died, The Times described him in an obituary as a "virulent anti-Semite", though Reed himself claimed that he drew a distinction between opposition to Zionism and anti-Semitism, and was not against the Jewish Race, but rather, was against the Jewish Religion, which he believed was a master race ideology. He said in The Controversy of Zion:

“ "The true start of this affair occurred on a day in 458 BC which this narrative will reach in its sixth chapter. On that day the petty Palestinian tribe of Judah (earlier disowned by the Israelites) produced a racial creed, the disruptive effect of which on subsequent human affairs may have exceeded that of explosives or epidemics. This was the day on which the theory of the master-race was set up as "the Law".

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The creed which was given force of daily law in Judah in 458 BC was then and still is unique in the world. It rested on the assertion, attributed to the tribal deity (Jehovah), that "the Israelites" (in fact, the Judahites) were his "chosen people" who, if they did all his "statutes and judgments", would be set over all other peoples and be established in a "promised land". Out of this theory, whether by forethought or unforeseen necessity, grew the pendent theories of "captivity" and "destruction". If Jehovah were to be worshipped, as he demanded, at a certain place in a specified land, all his worshippers had to live there.

Obviously all of them could not live there, but if they lived elsewhere, whether by constraint or their own choice, they automatically became "captives" of "the stranger", whom they had to "root out", "pull down" and "destroy". Given this basic tenet of the creed, it made no difference whether the "captors" were conquerors or friendly hosts; their ordained lot was to be destruction or enslavement.

Before they were destroyed or enslaved, they were, for a time, to be "captors" of the Judahites, not in their own right, but because the Judahites, having failed in "observance", deserved punishment. In this way, Jehovah revealed himself as the one-God of all-peoples: though he "knew" only the "chosen people", he would employ the heathen to punish them for their "transgressions", before meting out the foreordained destruction to these heathen."”

In his book The Controversy of Zion, he attacked Judaism as a declaration of war against humanity, arguing that it was an imposition of a malicious Levitical priesthood in reaction to the Universalist tendencies present in Israel and in other cultures. He argued that this hostile Levitical cult which became Judaism believed that if its adherents didn't obey God, they would be persecuted, and if they did, they would destroy the Gentiles and rule the earth. According to Reed, persecution, revenge, and destruction were an integral part of their identity. He then argued that this ideology brought forth extremely destructive effects, citing the zealous Zionist macro-historian Dr. Joseph Katsein to the effect that Jews, by subverting nations, led to the destruction of the Babylonians, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans, each time by "stretching out open arms" to a conqueror. In the rest of the book, he argued that while the Jews of the House of Joseph (which he associated with Sephardic Jews) were content to assimilate, the descendents of the Levites , centered in Russia (which he described as "Talmudic Ghettolords"), were not. In the chapters of his book entitled "The World Revolution" and "The Design", he argued that Cromwell's Glorious Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution were part of a larger movement of World Revolution that was revealed by the Weishaupt's 18th Century Illuminati and possible predecessors, and that this organization went underground and became the mainspring for subsequent revolutions. After this, in a chapter entitled "The Warnings of Disraeli", Reed argued that while evidence was inconclusive to show that Jews were the "hidden hand" behind the French Revolution and the 18th century Illuminati, statements made by Benjamin Disraeli and Mikhail Bakunin proved that these Russian "Talmudic ghettolords" gained control of Weishaupt's Illuminist world revolution conspiracy networks. Subsequently he argued that these characters put a stop to the Jewish emancipation that threatened their authority, founded Bolshevism, and hijacked world Jewry into their Zionist ideology and garrison state, aiming for total world power. He argued that the common argument that the Protocols of Zion were an absolute plagiarism was misdirection, and that the program within that text bore much more resemblance to the 18th Century Illuminati's program of World Revolution than it did to Maurice Joly's text, and that the political program contained within was shown to be real by the statements of Disraeli and Bakunin concerning Jewish leadership of the World Revolution, and that this political program was apparent in the Bolshevik Revolution. He stated, in a chapter entitled The Protocols:

“ No proof is given that the document is what it purports to be, a minute of a secret meeting of Jewish "Elders". In that respect, therefore, it is valueless.

In every other respect it is of inestimable importance, for it is shown by the conclusive test (that of subsequent events) to be an authentic document of the world-conspiracy first disclosed by Weishaupt's papers. Many other documents in the same series had followed that first revelation, as I have shown, but this one transcends all of them. The others were fragmentary and gave glimpses; this one gives the entire picture of the conspiracy, motive, method and objective. It adds nothing new to what had been revealed in parts (save for the unproven, attribution to Jewish elders themselves), but it puts all the parts in place and exposes the whole. It accurately depicts all that has come about in the fifty years since it was published, and what clearly will follow in the next fifty years unless in that time the force which the conspiracy has generated produces the counter-force.”

He argued in The Controversy of Zion, and in other texts like Somewhere South of Suez and Far and Wide that Zionism took over Britain in World War One, and completely controlled the Governments of Western Powers like Britain and the United States. He believed that Zionism was the "hidden hand" behind World Wars I and II, and that it will eventually lead to World War III, after which a World Government will be imposed.

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