Brief History of the Jesuits
Europe was overwhelmingly Christian from 500 AD to 1500 AD.
Anti-Jewish sentiment was increasing throughout Europe after 1000 AD.
It was especially strong in Spain, which saw a rise in European ethnocentrism as a reaction to their Muslim occupation (Reconquista).
Politician Ferrand Martínez led a 13-year anti-Semitic campaign in 1378, and many Jews either:
The Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) was founded in 1540 and welcomed Jewish converts.
It was not a separate denomination, but more a club for Catholics with an adventurous spirit to strive for the propagation of the faith.
Crypto-Jews joined the order and used the networking base to retain high amounts of influence in law, finance, diplomacy and administration.
The Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834), which was intended to monitor false converts, was not successfully rooting out the Crypto-Jews.
The complaints of native Spanish members regarding the crypto-Jewish Jesuit elite are remarkably uniform. Predominant among their concerns was the Jewish tendency towards monopoly, nepotism, arrogance, aggressive ambition, and an air of insincerity in the practice of Christianity. Of particular concern was the fact that the Spanish Jesuit Order was becoming an exclusive enclave of influential Jews that stretched out even into the heart of Rome. …
Moreover, Benedetto Palmio, an Italian assistant to two native European Jesuit Superior Generals (Francisco de Borja and Everard Mercurian), complained of the “multitude and insolence of Spanish neophytes,” whom he described as a “pestilence,” saying that “those who governed in Rome were almost all neophytes.” …
Reflecting age-old Jewish ethnic networking, there were gross ethnic disparities in promotions to high office, with Palmio stressing that “the neophytes want to dominate everywhere.” Conversos were “overly ambitious, insolent, Janus-faced, pretentious, despotic, astute, terrible, greedy for power, and infamous.” Lorenzo Maggio, an Italian Jesuit curia in Rome, complained that “those from the circumcision subverted the entire house of the Society.”1
There began a pro-Catholic grassroots movement among the Jesuit order, which had branched beyond Spain.
Christians in the order used diplomatic relations with the Church in Rome to oust Crypto-Jewish Jesuit leaders.
The Jesuits then applied Spanish Blood-purity laws to their membership requirements, tracing the lineage of those seeking membership.
By 1590, enough Crypto-Jews and Converso sympathisers had been removed that there was no longer sufficient opposition to Blood-purity rules. The lineage-hunting season commenced in earnest, removing all persons of Jewish ancestry from the Society of Jesus.
Fast-forward one or two centuries and the Society of Jesus had become a supra-national organisation with wealth and influence.
By the mid-18th century, the Society had acquired a European reputation for political maneuvering and economic success. Monarchs in many European states grew increasingly wary of what they saw as undue interference from a foreign entity.2
The Jesuits, who were not above getting involved in politics, were distrusted for their ambition and power over independent nations' religious and political affairs.
The Jesuits are a military organisation, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organisation is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
Napoleon Bonaparte
My history of the Jesuits is not eloquently written, but it is supported by unquestionable authorities, and is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed a step towards darkness, cruelty, despotism, death. I do not like the appearance of the Jesuits. If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of Loyola.
John Adams
It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country - the United States of America - are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated most of the wars of Europe.
Marquis de LaFayette
They were expelled from the Portuguese Empire (1759), France (1764), the Two Sicilies, Malta, Parma, the Spanish Empire (1767) and Austria, and Hungary (1782).
However, the order continued underground operations in China, Russia, Prussia, and the United States.
The modern view is that the order's suppression resulted from political and economic conflicts rather than a theological controversy.
The order was restored in 1814 near the end of the Napoleonic wars.
The similarities between the 16th century criticisms and 18th century criticisms suggest that the Jesuit order had once again become a hotbed for Jewish networking after the culture of inquisition had died down.
https://www.unz.com/article/review-the-jesuit-order-as-a-synagogue-of-jews/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_the_Society_of_Jesus