And ultimately it’s the tying of Zionism with Judaism that’s going to result in a lot of the anger being misdirected from the Israeli state to average Jews there and elsewhere who had no power and nothing to do with this. If Netanyahu’s goal was to make places other than Israel less safe for Jews (especially places with poor hate-crime protection and prosecution), mission accomplished.

But it genuinely might be, because if that becomes the case then there may be an influx of Jews into Israel seeking safety which he could use to justify expanding further into the West Bank and Gaza.