Brit HaBirionim

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Brit HaBirionim
ברית הבריונים
founding 1930
Place of foundation Jerusalem
resolution 1933
Headquarters Jerusalem
Alignment Revisionist Zionism
Abba Achimeir , Uri Zvi Greenberg and Joshua Yeivin.

Brit HaBirionim ( Hebrew בְּרִית הַבִּרְיוֹנִים Brīt ha-Birjōnīm , German 'Bund der Starken' ) was a secret, by its own name, fascist faction within the so-called Revisionist Zionism (ZRM) in Palestine, which developed its activities between 1930 and 1933. It was founded by Abba Achimeir , Uri Zvi Greenberg and Joshua Yeivin.

background

The rebellions of the Arabs of 1929 and the inability of the Haganah , the Hebron massacre and the riots in Safed to prevent, led to the founding of the first militant organization that was distinguished by its complete separation from the existing Zionist establishment that of the Zionist labor movement was dominated.

ideology

A revisionist maximalism based on the model of Italian fascism was officially raised to the program. The aim was to create a fascist corporate state. The group's ideology was also influenced by the Canaanism of Yonatan Ratosh and the theories of Oswald Spenglers in The Decline of the Occident (1918). The Zionist revisionists (ZRM) were called upon to adopt the fascist principles of Benito Mussolini's government in Italy and to create an integralist “pure nationalism” among the Jews.

Revisionist maximalism rejected communism , humanism , internationalism , liberalism , pacifism and socialism . He condemned the liberal Zionists for advocating only the middle class instead of the entire Jewish nation.

Brit haBirionim presented its own goals in 1932. Ahimeir officially demanded that the leadership of the revisionist wing take the form of a dictatorship. An independent Zionist federation should be founded, the corruption of the Zionists ended and war declared on anti-Semitism.

The group's motto was "Conquer or Die".

activities

Abba Ahimeir (handcuffed) and other members of Brit HaBirionim , including Haim Dviri, while being taken to a court in Jerusalem by law enforcement agencies .

Actions by members included demonstrations against visiting British dignitaries, marches against the arrest and repatriation of Jewish refugees to Europe after their visas expired, disruptions to the British census and provocative acts such as blowing the shofar on the Western Wall (then prohibited) and the removal of the Nazi flags from two German consulates .

In 1933, the British administration arrested several members, including Ahimeir, and charged them with the murder of Chaim Arlosoroff . Although acquitted, the group's reputation suffered under the charges, resulting in their isolation and eventual disbandment.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Eran Kaplan: The Jewish Radical Right. Revisionist Zionism and its ideological legacy. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI 2005, ISBN 0-299-20380-8 , p. 15.
  2. ^ A b Colin Shindler: The Triumph of Military Zionism. Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right (= International Library of Political Studies. 9). IB Tauris, London et al. 2006, ISBN 1-8451-1030-7 , p. 13.
  3. ↑ Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur (ed.): Religious fundamentalism and political extremism . Frank Cass, London et al. 2004, ISBN 0-7146-5492-2 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Ofira Seliktar: New Zionism and the foreign policy system of Israel (= MERI Special Studies. 4). Croom Helm Ltd., London et al. 1986, ISBN 0-7099-3341-X , p. 84.
  5. ^ Joseph Heller: The Failure of Fascism in Jewish Palestine 1935–1948. In: Stein Ugelvik Larsen (ed.): Fascism outside Europe. The European Impulse against Domestic Conditions in the Diffusion of Global Fascism. Social Science Monographs, Boulder CO 2001, ISBN 0-88033-988-8 , pp. 362-392, here pp. 364-365.
  6. ^ A b Joseph Heller: The Failure of Fascism in Jewish Palestine 1935–1948. In: Stein Ugelvik Larsen (ed.): Fascism outside Europe. The European Impulse against Domestic Conditions in the Diffusion of Global Fascism. Social Science Monographs, Boulder CO 2001, ISBN 0-88033-988-8 , pp. 362-392, here p. 378.
  7. ^ Zev Golan: Free Jerusalem. Heroes, Heroines and Rogues Who Created the State of Israel. Devora, Jerusalem et al. 2003, ISBN 1-930143-54-0 , pp. 49-53, 66-77.
  8. ↑ Terrorism Experts . Archived from the original on December 17, 2007. Retrieved December 2, 2007.