Another workaround might be M-: (font-lock-set-defaults). It seems that font-lock-set-defaults is typically not called in LaTeX-mode initialization (see the final comment in font-latex-setup, addressing bug#65912), but instead via global-font-lock-mode, which I guess you've disabled.
Paul
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