Left, right, far right, far left ideologies are all over the globe. There is far right (strong nationalism) in Israel, Africa, Middle East, India, Pakistan, Japan South East Asia etc. Some have correlation with each other, and other do not. Semitic Jewish far right is different from let say the German neo-Nazi far right (radical right).
We already know the history between Jewishness and (Neo-)Nazism.
I know, I am from Canada. A lot of Canadians view multiculturalism as part of our national identity, and a byproduct of this is that our far-right is a motley crew of multiracial right-wing nut jobs who import the far-right rhetoric from the old country and mix it with the far-right rhetoric from their friends' old countries lol. The Indian guys (Hindutva) are the most violent, actually. People assume the whites because that's how it is in the US, but in Canada, it's actually Indians. Not that whites aren't trying to catch up lol.
Actually, some fascism experts think that if fascism rises in Canada, it will probably have a multicultural character. I dunno, you could see that in the aftermath of the 2016 US election and Brexit vote and all that, there was rhetoric flying around in Canada that we are better than everyone else because we have a multicultural country and can still maintain a functional democracy and get along, which is pretty fascistic if you think about it (also discounts the fact that we do have ethnic tension like every other country on Earth). Also, the far right in Canada will often pick one ethnic or religious group to scapegoat and claim that they are incapable of living in a multicultural society and single them out for violence. Now it's Muslims, before then it was Sikhs, and before then, it was Jews.
Fascism worships the state above all else, so if multiculturalism is part of the state (as it is in Canada as per our constitution), then the fascism from that state will be multicultural.
As much as I don't like fascism and never want it to rise here, it's an interesting thought experiment.
I was also in Africa last year, although I found I got along better with more right-leaning people down there, surprisingly. Might be because in Africa, people with authoritarian mindsets are more attracted to left-wing politics, while they are more attracted to the right in the West. I was in South Africa and Namibia, and both countries had elections around the time, and both countries had fringe far-left so-called "anti-establishment" candidates (I put that in quotes because the South African guy was as much an immoral, corrupt, swamp-dwelling elite as Donald Trump is, except that unlike Trump, he's an actual career politician trying to claim he isn't one lol) running that were very anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, etc., which people with authoritarian personalities tend to be.
Basically, if you used Stephen Harper's (old Canadian PM who I hated but I concede he is smart and his book makes good points) about the rise of right-wing populism, it's because any population can be divided into two groups "somewheres" who prefer to stick with cultural traditions and stay where they grew up, and "nowheres" who are willing to move and are cosmopolitan in mindset, and over the past 30 years or so, the economy favoured the "nowheres", leading to economic growth in cosmopolitan cities while at the same time causing economic decline and depopulation of rural areas, which (rightfully) pissed off the somewheres as they saw not only their job opportunities, but access to basic services like health care, decline. The nowheres got richer and healthier while the somewheres got sicker and poorer, making them more vulnerable to demagogues. Basically, in the West, the "somewheres" tend to be right-wing, while in Africa, the "somewheres" tend to be left-wing (this is probably why cosmopolitan Cape Town always elects the right of centre Democratic Alliance in South African elections, while it's the rural salt of the earth kind of folks in Limpopo or Mpumalanga who vote for the left-wing parties). I've noticed this about people from Eastern Europe as well, it's probably a result of the "somewheres" growing up under communism, and see that as the status quo that they prefer. So, maybe Harper was wrong in specifying right-wing populism and just said "populism". Even the US has left-wing populism, ie Bernie Sanders. I think a lot of his supporters are "somewheres" too.
