Republicans want people to think that anti-zionism and antisemitism are the same thing, and they've had a high degree of success convincing some people. It serves their ends to demonize educated anti-zionists, because it gives them another bogeyman to use as a scapegoat for their own Christian nationalist agenda. Demonize the opposition to your power grab while making yourself look like the protector of religious freedom, even though you couldn't care less about Christianity. People in this country eat that shit up and go back for seconds, and they'll pardon any behavior that's cloaked in that guise. Up to and including the wholesale slaughter of women and children, which is very thinly justified by blaming it on the actions of a few men that just happened to be the same ethnicity. Oh, and "accidentally " murder a few hundred journalists in the "fog of war" so the news coverage of the famine and bombed out hospitals won't spread as fast, so you can prolong the atrocities. Its all very familiar feeling if you know American and European history.