Irgun and Lehi

The Irgun (part of a longer Hebrew phrase meaning "The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel") was a Zionist terrorist organization, a more extreme offshoot of the older Haganah organization. It was active between 1931 and 1948. The leader Menachem Begin later became Prime Minister of Israel. The current Likud party partially originates from the Herut party that originated from the Irgun.

The Lehi (an abbreviation for a Hebrew phrase meaning "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel"), also known as the Stern Gang, was a Zionist terrorist organization, an offshoot of the older Irgun organization. It was active between 1940 and 1948. The leader Yitzhak Shamir later became Prime Minister of Israel.

The history of the two organizations is closely interlinked and often discussed together in sources, such as regarding terrorism against British, Palestinian, and other individuals and groups.

See also

• David Ben-Gurion
• Jewish Brigade
• 43 Group
• 62 Group

External links

Codoh

• By Blood and Fire
• Deir Yassin: Inconvenient History
• Not Only Deir Yassin; Zionist Massacres in 1948: New Evidence
• Oblivion in the Land of Memory
• Zionism's Violent Legacy

Associations with National Socialist Germany

• Zionism and Anti-Semitism: A Strange Alliance Through History
• Zionism and the Third Reich

Occidental Observer

• Commemorating British Casualties of Jewish Terrorism, 1944–1948
• Dunkirk Backstory: Jewish Traitors, Communist Spies, and the Internment of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts
• Zionist Extremism as Product of the Internal Dynamics of Judaism, Part 3: A Risky Strategy Becomes Mainstream