Italian fascism served as a political model for Revisionist Zionism

Evidence

The Revisionists, who rejected both the romantic fascination with the East and the decaying West, sought an alternative cultural model that both cultivated man’s authentic urges and embraced modern technology. Italy, caught between the primitive East and the decadent West, offered the Revisionists a viable political and historical model of a glorious Mediterranean civilization that, like the ancient Israeli kingdom, had been crushed by foreign powers, but was ready to reclaim its hegemony through the affirmation of manhood and national pride. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 536

Categorization

• SEED: A potential essay angle: how a small movement borrowed its entire self-image as a ‘nation reborn after defeat’ from another resurgent Mediterranean state — the mechanics of aspirational national role-models.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 536