He supported Naboo settler state and their Republican overlords over the Trade Federation invaders in classic colonial war, later himself even becoming the comprador token native in Republic Senate.
He was a patsy who was manipulated into doing the bidding of a Sith Lord who had already orchestrated a galactic civil war and gotten away with it. He did a bad thing but he meant well and nobody else could reasonably done better in his situation.
ET being in Star Wars and sending out facehuggers to turn other characters into more ETs and then having the whole movie remade as an allegory to apartheid South Africa
ET's ability to express himself in English may have been limited, but don't you remember the scene from the movie where he finally did "phone home" and then spoke in fluent Arabic for 15 minutes about weak points in Saudi military infrastructure and shipping logistics in the Red Sea?