Sorry if I singled you out! I didn’t mean to disagree with you, I more just wanted to add something to the conversation. 
You are totally right, and I personally wouldn’t write off the creators of the Ferengi as antisemites purely on the evidence of their creations. I can’t speak to what they might have had in mind, I never watched the show but it sounds like they wanted a culture clash between utopian socialism and cynical capitalism. And hey, since we’re in space, instead of another culture they can be another species! Then the species is cobbled together out of common fantasy tropes adapted for space.
But if you trace back the lineage of those tropes…
I really don’t want to rag on the whole fantasy genre, but I do think it’s important to understand and accept that a lot of fantasy worlds are fundamentally racist. I don’t mean the authors are particularly racist or that their characters are particularly racist, but that the worlds themselves have racism woven into their fabric. Dwarves are X. Elves are Y. Culture and values and species and race are all blended together and served up as an unidentifiable slurry. It’s a handy shortcut for creating a seemingly vast backdrop without overwhelming the reader/viewer, but for me at least it’s uncomfortably reminiscent of the sort of wilful ignorance about the world that has driven colonial empires and slave trades for a very long time.
So all of that’s in my head before we even get to the hooked noses and the crooked teeth. The moment you go creating a race that is more or less uniform in thought and deed you’re already in problematic territory because there are a good many people who still believe that’s how the real world works.
And again, I know you’re defending the intent of the authors and I’m sort of talking past you a bit. But if you had the chance to go back and meet the creators of Star Trek as they were drawing up the Ferengi, you might be tempted to pull them aside for a quiet word about how it looks, no?
As far as the visual resemblance goes, I did a google image search for “ferengi jew” and I honestly don’t want to talk about it.
