In the midst of Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed crackdown on antisemitism, one key fact seems to have been overlooked: the antisemitism is coming from inside the house — the White House, to be specific.

The Trump administration has gone to extraordinary lengths in what it has sold to the public as a battle against antisemitism and those who spread it. It has asserted the right to strip permanent residency from people over their speech and deport them for writing op-eds, to defund universities for not cracking down harder on protests and speech, to treat student protesters like terrorists, including by raiding their homes, and is threatening to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits over their political views, among other things.

But strangely, this crackdown has often fallen on individuals who don’t have any actual record of antisemitic behavior, no small number of them being Jewish themselves. It’s all enough to make you suspect that the actual goal here isn’t to rid American society of very real, poisonous bigotry toward Jews, and is more to lazily use them as an excuse to stifle political speech that Trump officials don’t like.