Jewish bankers allied with governments as such, never with particular states

Evidence

The truth of that matter was that the Rothschilds had as little political idea as other Jewish bankers of what they wanted to carry out in France, to say nothing of a well-defined purpose which would even remotely suggest a war. On the contrary, like their fellow Jews they never allied themselves with any specific government, but rather with governments, with authority as such. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 115

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s broader scaffolding of why Jews became the prototypical stateless people — their statelessness was mirrored by allegiance to no government in particular, only to authority itself. Useful foundation for later Islamophobia readings on minority loyalties being questioned.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Arendt’s point about preferring monarchies because republics rest on popular will foreshadow her account of why Jewish emancipation succeeded under enlightened absolutism but failed under popular nationalism?