Being labeled as a hate crime would not fit, IMO; it would just be destruction of property.

Israel trains our police departments, so it is no surprise that they are much more of a police state.

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How Israel Trains U.S. Police [09:35 | JUL 03 2020 | AJ+] https://youtu.be/eOj_6-x6oNg

Thousands of U.S. law enforcement officials have traveled to Israel on police exchange trips over the past two decades. There, they’ve learned and brought home tactics like racial profiling, crowd control and surveillance that Israel employs against the millions of Palestinians it controls under its illegal military occupation. AJ+’s Dena Takruri explains how American protesters exercising their constitutional rights are being treated as an occupied population.

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Those interested in law:

Texas v. Johnson

Legal case

Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech. In the case, activist Gregory Lee Johnson was convicted for burning an American flag during a protest outside the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, and was fined $2,000 and sentenced to one year in jail in accordance with Texas law. Justice William Brennan wrote for the five-justice majority that Johnson’s flag burning was protected under the freedom of speech, and therefore the state could not censor Johnson nor punish him for his actions. The ruling invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag, which at the time were enforced in 48 of the 50 states.

Full case name Texas v. Gregory L. Johnson

Citations 491 U.S. 397 (more) 109 S. Ct. 2533, 105 L. Ed. 2d 342, 1989 U.S. LEXIS 3115, 57 U.S.L.W. 4770

Prior history Defendant convicted, Dallas County Criminal Court, affirmed, 706 S.W.2d 120 (Tex. App. 1986), reversed and remanded for dismissal, 755 S.W.2d 92 (Tex. Crim. App. 1988), cert. granted, 488 U.S. 884 (1988).

Majority joined by Marshall, Blackmun, Scalia, Kennedy

Dissent joined by White, O’Connor