If someone says that Jewish scholars dropped a line from the Torah to keep
people from believing in their religion, they are also saying that all of the
Jewish people of that time went along with these scholars. This is an
accusation that all Jewish people in the past were willing to change the
Torah, no matter how sacred they considered G-d's words to be, in order to
deceive other people about the truth about G-d.
I think it is not just a simple comment about a few scholars.