Revisionist Zionists

A faction within the Zionist movement founded by Ze’ev Jabotinsky that advocated a more militant, right-wing approach to establishing a Jewish state. They rejected aspects of both the diasporic Eastern past and liberal Western assimilationism, and after 1932 shifted from Britain to Italy as their preferred model ally, inverting Jewish theology from a narrative of triumph into one of decline.

Claims that use this term

• Revisionist Zionists rejected both the Eastern past and the Western present
• Revisionist Zionists abandoned Britain for Italy as their model ally after 1932
• Revisionist Zionists inverted Jewish theology from triumph into decline
• Revisionist Zionists compared Jews to Ireland as Mediterranean peoples crushed by barbaric northern Europe