Is your brain hardwired to interchangeably read / see the word “religion” as “ethnicity”? How else could you possibly invent a quote that “racism does not have to be based on race”?
Furthermore, I do not use the word “race” because that’s not a thing - what is a thing is “ethnicity” - and in a broader biological sense, “species”. We’re all the same species, but ethnicities differ and only racists take perceived ethnicity and proceed to use “race” as a talking point.
I make a point to differentiate between the kind of anti-semitism that is directed at “everything jewish” and racism, because it helps dismantle people’s talking points, especially to out racists.