State prosecutors in Texas seek to make anti-Israel graffiti a hate crime – Mondoweiss

In early March 2024, Raunaq Alam, 32, Afsheen Khan, 23, and Julia Venzor, 26, vandalized Uncommon Church in Hurst, Texas, a nondenominational Christian place of worship. The associated graffiti, reading “Fuck Israel” with three down turned red triangles, was left along with stickers with a secure layer of spray adhesive on the church’s flagpole. An Israeli flag waved from the top of the flagpole and was visible from the main road. 

The vandalism was done in protest, as the…