Alarm in Texas as activist faces hate-crimes trial over anti-Israel graffiti

That's because Texas is run by antisemites. You have to be antisemitic to conflate Israel with Judaism. Texan leaders believe that Jews can't actually be real Americans; their loyalty is always suspect. They believe Jews are born foreigners, and that they will always have an innate loyalty to the foreign nation of Israel. They fundamentally do not believe Jewish people can actually be Americans. They believe this in the very core of their souls. This is why criticism of Israel is an attack of Jews in general to these antisemites; there is no difference between a Jew and an Israeli. Every Jewish American is just an Israeli citizen that happens to presently reside in the US.

And while this malignant belief currently serves American Jews, that is only a function of current US foreign policy. Currently the US and Israel are allies, but no nation has permanent allies, only permanent interests. And if the relationship between Israel and the US ever deteriorates, the antisemites that run Texas will turn on their Jewish population. If every Jew in America has innate loyalty to Israel, if relations ever sour, then it becomes justified to persecute these suspect foreign agents that are living within our borders. If every American Jew is actually just an Israeli citizen, then it's justifiable to involuntarily deport American Jews back to "their homeland."

This is the abominable logic at the heart of right wing antisemitism and its conflation of Judaism with the state of Israel. Ultimately the goal is to firmly establish in the minds of the public that every Jewish person is a permanent foreigner, with permanent innate loyalty to a foreign state. This is the logic of the Japanese internment camps, and the foundational logic of the Holocaust itself. Hitler, just like the leaders of Texas, believed that Jews were fundamentally foreigners and were undeserving of the protections of citizenship.

It's just old-school antisemitic fascism. Nothing more.

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That's because Texas is run by antisemites. You have to be antisemitic to conflate Israel with Judaism. Texan leaders believe that Jews can't actually be real Americans; their loyalty is always suspect. They believe Jews are born foreigners, and that they will always have an innate loyalty to the foreign nation of Israel. They fundamentally do not believe Jewish people can actually be Americans. They believe this in the very core of their souls. This is why criticism of Israel is an attack of Jews in general to these antisemites; there is no difference between a Jew and an Israeli. Every Jewish American is just an Israeli citizen that happens to presently reside in the US.
And while this malignant belief currently serves American Jews, that is only a function of current US foreign policy. Currently the US and Israel are allies, but no nation has permanent allies, only permanent interests. And if the relationship between Israel and the US ever deteriorates, the antisemites that run Texas will turn on their Jewish population. If every Jew in America has innate loyalty to Israel, if relations ever sour, then it becomes justified to persecute these suspect foreign agents that are living within our borders. If every American Jew is actually just an Israeli citizen, then it's justifiable to involuntarily deport American Jews back to "their homeland."
This is the abominable logic at the heart of right wing antisemitism and its conflation of Judaism with the state of Israel. Ultimately the goal is to firmly establish in the minds of the public that every Jewish person is a permanent foreigner, with permanent innate loyalty to a foreign state. This is the logic of the Japanese internment camps, and the foundational logic of the Holocaust itself. Hitler, just like the leaders of Texas, believed that Jews were fundamentally foreigners and were undeserving of the protections of citizenship.
It's just old-school antisemitic fascism. Nothing more.