What this really smells like is:
"We 'progressives' who have taken over here have to rally the Fediverse to back Biden Democrats as the only alternative to Republican fascism', and this beeeyayatch anarcho-socialist Illingworth is in our way, truth-dragging us!! How do we take her out?"
"I know....let's drag up some of her quotes out of context and smear her with the 'antisemitism' card!"
"Do it!!"