In a chilling development, the Trump administration has unleashed a full-scale witch hunt targeting nearly 900 faculty members within the University of California system. Their “crime” is signing open letters on the Israeli assault on Gaza and calling for the protection of Jewish and Palestinian students alike.
I’ve wondered, too. Is it driven by an obsessive hatred of Arabs and Muslims? The Christian Right’s fetish for armageddon? Oil? Kickbacks?
Christian Zionism definitely plays a part but the answer is mainly the power of the pro Israel lobby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_Policy?wprov=sfla1