MIGA

See also: miga, migá, míga, and Miga

English

Etymology

By analogy with MAGA (“Make America Great Again”).

Phrase

MIGA

(US politics, usually informal, derogatory) Acronym of Make Israel Great Again.
- 2024 February 6, Amy Neustein, “The ‘Make Israel Great Again’ movement will likely do the opposite”, in The Hill‎^[1]:
  For Israel, I’m afraid, MIGA will have worse consequences than MAGA had in the U.S.
- 2025 June 28, Marjorie Taylor Greene, The Tucker Carlson Show:
  ...but if you're willing to step out and you're actually to say, "Hey, we're not MIGA, we're MAGA and there's a major difference there", then there is a group of people that come at you with everything they have...
- 2026 March 6, Shawn McCreesh, “Live Updates: Trump Says There Will Be 'No Deal' as Israel Unleashes Wave of Attacks on Iran”, in New York Times:
  Some of Trump's former allies, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, have been sardonically throwing around the term "MIGA" (sometimes to mean "Make Israel Great Again") during discussions about how the president has betrayed their isolationist world view.

Usage notes

The phrase may be used by speakers across the political spectrum in the United States but with slightly varied focus. Republican supporters of President Trump's agenda ("MAGA Republicans") apply it to particular policies and actions with which they disagree, while independent and Democrat opponents sometimes apply it sarcastically to the entire MAGA movement, seeing it as serving the interests of Zionists over the general population of the United States. It is also antisemitically applied with reference to various conspiracies about Jewish control over American capitalism.