In short: the Pharisees (and their descendants who make up the vast majority of world Jewry) did not ask to be prop villains in Christian moral tales and frankly did not deserve it. @theradr.bsky.social has a very helpful three-part series that goes a bit deeper:
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/pharisees/

The next step will be to turn this on American travelers returning home.

"Show us all your photos, texts, emails and posts, and all the same for everyone you talked to on your trip."

They want the metadata from digital pictures, which can identify the exact location they were taken and the device used to take them. Uh, how about not?

I guess I'm glad I'm not trying to come here, but as you say, "first they came for".