Anti-Semitism today is expanding into areas where it never existed before. The most prominent example is the Asia Pacific region, most notably, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia. Asian Pacific anti-Semitism, unlike its Western and Middle Eastern counterparts, is Jew-hatred without Jews. It is thus rhetorical in nature, expressed mainly in books, magazines, articles, radio and TV broadcasts and speeches; "real time" and anonymity are rapidly transforming the Internet into another powerful vehicle for the dissemination of anti-Semitic ideas.

Asian Pacific anti-Semitism is an import from European-Christian and Middle Eastern Muslim societies, and would not have achieved its present popularity and uniformity of expression without the facilitating role of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Protocols demonize the Jews by accusing them of a millennia-old conspiracy for taking over the world through the use of their purported domination of world finances, the media and Christian-front organizations such as the Freemasons and the Jesuits. Since the Jews are said to be weaving this plot behind the scenes, their actual physical presence is irrelevant. A recent example of this point is the speech of the Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir bin Mohamad who, in November 1997, blamed his nation's sudden financial and economic hardships on an American-Jewish financier and on the "fact" that "the Jews don't like to see Muslims prosper." The case of the Asian Pacific region shows that The Protocols have given anti-Semitism universal and permanent appeal, by making its existence independent of the physical presence of Jews in the society.