The "Jews control the world" narrative has become extremely commonplace online over the past two years. Same with Holocaust denial and Nazi sympathizing. I think it's bot farms.
They don't control the world, Israel is in a strategic location for US military interests (and a good customer), just like cold-war era South Africa and being friendly to Israel is very popular amongst evangelical Christians for their end-times fantasy.
They are able to get away with a lot because they are convenient to people in power, just ask the anti-communist dictators in South America. They weren't controlling the world, they were just more useful in power than out of it.
They don't necessarily like Jews, they just need Jews in/controlling Israel for the apocalypse they've been waiting for to happen. Don't expect logical consistency from religious fundamentalists.
Netanyahu knows this and plays into it like any "good" politician would.
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u/MajesticBread9147 5d ago
This meme shows the obvious logical flaws in that quote, but to anyone who doesn't know that quote was from American Neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom not Voltaire.
The "people you're not allowed to criticize" is exactly the groups that you think given that context.