Partially. The Jewish people are generally smart, business-savvy and intensely clannish. They're also the "people who killed Jesus," and that colored opinions for centuries.

Another part of the hatred stems from their traditional control of the banking industry. In Middle Ages Europe, Christians were forbidden from charging interest on loans. The Jews, still trying to recover from the Diaspora, seized on the opportunity to get into the money-lending business, as they were locked out of many other industries in Europe. They were, for a while, the only people who could run banks. This created a lot of resentment and started fermenting the "greedy Jew" stereotypes that came to such awful fruition in WWII. (And please note this is a drastic over-simplification; somebody else can probably give you a far better detailed answer)

I'm sure the Jews aren't blameless nor the Europeans completely wrong. Friction always forms between different cultural groups, so some of it was just inevitable.

More recently however, as part of the Jewish reaction to the horrors of WWII, they a) founded Israel, which many on the Left see as an irrational and evil state due to the hardline stance they have to take, and b) view any hint of nationalism/patriotism in politics as a return to Nazism, which is one of the reasons why they support the Left over the Right in many cases. Globalism represents a destruction of nationalism, which might be why we see prominent Jews pushing for it.

Again, oversimplification, but it all combines to form this notion that the Jews are trying to control the world. They do have a lot of clout in the financial world, so as political power shifted to Wall Street, it led to an increase in Jewish political influence as well. However, blaming the Jews is about as racist and unproductive as blaming white people. The problem isn't ethnicity, the problem is ideology, and support for globalism is a far bigger factor than the Torah.

(And of course, not all Jews fit into this mold, not at all. It's a generalization based off observable history)