Opinion: Israel is the last vestige of European colonialism - so Trump defends it at all costs

Support for Israel within the American Maga movement is framed as a proxy battle in a culture war over history, identity, and the legitimacy of settler-colonialism. This alliance aims to suppress the memory of colonialism's atrocities and create a sanitized historical narrative to revive colonial ideals. In this context, Israel is viewed as the symbolic last vestige of European colonialism allowed to flourish. This perspective suggests the movement's nostalgia is not for the 1950s, but for the earlier peak of Euro-American colonialism.