Here are the most accurate terms to describe this behavior:

1. Conflating Anti-Zionism with Antisemitism (or the reverse)

This is the most precise description. It's the act of equating criticism of the Israeli government's policies (anti-Zionism or political criticism) with hatred of Jewish people as a whole (antisemitism). This is a logical and rhetorical error that harms both legitimate political discourse and the fight against real antisemitism.

2. The "Living Room Fallacy"

A term coined by scholar and antisemitism researcher Deborah Lipstadt. The idea is: criticizing the policies of Israel's government is like criticizing the actions of someone in their office (a political realm). Accusing all Jews because of Israel's actions is like holding someone's family in their living room accountable for what they did at work. It wrongly applies collective, ethnic blame.

3. Bad Faith Argument / Disingenuous Deflection

This describes the intent behind the statement. It shuts down legitimate criticism by changing the subject to antisemitism, thereby putting the critic on the defensive and avoiding a substantive debate about policies. It's a form of red herring or whataboutism.

4. Collective Guilt / Collective Responsibility

This is the underlying antisemitic trope being invoked (even if the speaker's intent is to defend Israel). Holding all Jews, globally, responsible for the actions of a state is a classic form of antisemitism. When a newspaper does this, it is promoting the idea of Jewish collective guilt.

What to Call a Newspaper That Engages in This:

• It is engaging in irresponsible conflation.
• It is using a disingenuous deflection tactic.
• If it consistently and knowingly blurs this line to smear critics, it could be accused of enabling or trafficking in antisemitic tropes (specifically, collective guilt).
• More broadly, it is eroding the distinction between political criticism and bigotry, which makes it harder to identify and combat actual antisemitism.

In short: When a newspaper responds to any criticism of Israel by claiming "all Jews are being attacked," it is committing a fallacy of conflation, engaging in a disingenuous deflection, and dangerously flirting with the antisemitic trope of collective Jewish guilt. This behavior harms political debate and the crucial fight against real antisemitism.