From Aaron Astor at The Moderate Voice:
One thing the more modern anti-Semitic version had in common with older religious anti-Jewish currents was a belief that Jews are dangerously stateless, culturally alien and obsessed with global financial domination. Anti-Jewish/Semitic theories could be deployed by various political/clerical elites to pit the peasants or working classes against Jewish “foreign exploiters” and “interlopers.” Jews couldn’t be trusted because they were “cosmopolitan”, and not wedded to the values of the nation in which they resided. While modern Zionism was a way to construct a Jewish form of nationalism in the face of this rising anti-Semitic current, its ultimate success did little to stem the tide of persistent anti-Semitism. Shock after the Holocaust lessened some of the most egregious forms of anti-Semitism in the West, but the theories of anti-Semites continued to percolate on the margins of Western discourse. They still do.
It comes as no surprise that recent iterations of “nationalism” have brought forth a resurgence of anti-Semitism. But we should be aware of how it manifests itself today. In the past, anti-Semites fixated on a handful of wealthy Jewish financiers like the Rothschilds. Today, it is George Soros. In the past, the fraudulent pamphlet called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion outlined a supposed “global” conspiracy, which Henry Ford dubbed the work of the “International Jew.” Today the term “globalist”, often attached to various Jewish media or cultural figures, does the same work.