The actions were not only taken by the Austrian Government, and governments across Europe joined in this feast.
Jewish capital did incite hatred, but this was a secondary factor, after all, capitalists of that era were all cut from the same cloth, none significantly nobler than the others.
The essence of the anti-Semitic movements has always been a few constant factors:
One was the intensification of social conflicts, where the rulers, in order to consolidate their power, adopted methods to shift these conflicts;
The second was being out of money and unable to repay the high-interest loans from Jewish capital, rulers who did not want to carry the bad reputation of defaulting on their debts then used the banner of anti-Semitism as an excuse to default, incidentally making a profit in the process.
