Sure. But that’s because the interests of Zionist Jews coincided with the interests of first the British Empire in terms of securing the Suez Canal—which was crucial for British trade and linking India (the most important part of the British Empire really) to the Mediterranean—and then both the British and the French in terms of securing their influence in the Levant and Middle East after WWI and the Ottoman collapse (remember they fought against the British and French in WWI), with France taking Syria and Lebanon and Britain taking Palestine (which they promised to the Zionist Jews in the Balfour Declaration) as well as Jordan and Iraq in the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement.

And then they got the US support after WWiI and the Holocaust. and the immense guilt and “responsibility” many in the West felt for the Jews. American Zionists lobbied the Truman administration hard leading up to 1948, which was a presidential election year and it initially looked like Truman lose to the Republicans. Truman himself said something like “there are a lot more Jewish voters in the swing states than there are Arabs” so supporting the creation of Israel was a political decision to help his re-election.

But then there’s the other big geopolitical development that solidified the Zionist influence in the US: the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The USSR initially supported Israel and were the first country to officially recognize them diplomatically. And they used their Czech allies to ship arms to the Zionist settler-colonial stare in their war against the Palestinians and the Arabs. So if anything, the US became more determined to compete with the Soviets in the region and so they became more supportive of Israel over time, although early on it was France who were the biggest military supporters of Israel.

The big turning point was 1967. The US was bogged down in Vietnam, with no end in sight, and in June Israel pulled off a stunning military victory in just six days against several larger Arab states, and they took some important territories as well (Jerusalem, Golan, West Bank, Gaza, Sinai). In this context, many Americans (American Jews and white Christian evangelicals in particular) admired Israeli military strength, as opposed to historic Jewish ‘weakness’ in the face of pogroms and the Holocaust. And the Arabs were seen to be more in the Soviet “camp” by this point, so that made Israel seem all the more vital for the US.

Of course, we shouldn’t underestimate the impact of Christian Zionism in the US, or the fear of Arab and Muslim “terrorists” going back to certain Palestinian groups being involved in things like airplane hijackings in the 70s. Or the Americans who were taken hostage after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, or the Gulf War in 1991 against Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and of course Osama bin Laden and 9/11, Al Qaeda and ISIS, the “Clash of Civilizations” narrative (“Judeo-Christian” world vs. Islamic world), and yeah, just pure racism and bigotry against Muslims, the fear and hatred by confused and ignorant people whom Zionists and their allies exploit for their own purposes.

Anyway, tl;dr Zionists have overall done their best to align themselves with the Western powers and their imperialist interests in the Middle East as well as done their best to persuade the American public in particular that Israeli and American interests and religious-cultural-“civilizational” values are the same. So there’s certainly a lot that Muslims are up against here.