These theories are popular on the far-right, particularly in France,[3] Turkey,[4][5] Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Eastern Europe, and Japan, with similar allegations still being published.
It was heavily influenced by publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,[3] a fabricated document that appeared in the Russian Empire purporting to be an exposé of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy.
According to Danny Keren, a member of the Department of Computer Science at University of Haifa, the "conceptual inspiration" of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was the 1797 treatise, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism by the French priest Augustin Barruel, which claimed the Revolution was a Masonic-led conspiracy with the aim of overthrowing the moral teachings of the Catholic Church.
[6]According to the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon website: While it is both simplistic and specious to lay the responsibility for the French Revolution at the door of Freemasonry, there is no question that freemasons, as individuals, were active in building, and rebuilding, a new society.
[7] Retired admiral Barry Domvile, the founder of a British pro-Nazi association, The Link,[8] coined the title "Judmas" for the alleged Judeo-Masonic conspiracy.