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Revisionist Zionism
Jabotinsky · 1925– · Palestine / Israel · Nationalist · Movement · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
An immediate Jewish state on both banks of the Jordan, secured by force and defended by an 'iron wall'.
Economic model
Free enterprise, hostility to the labour federation's economic monopoly, compulsory arbitration of strikes.
Organisation of powers
Parliamentary but militarised, with a strong national leadership and paramilitary youth organisation.
Reading note
The lineage of Herut and later Likud.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +06
Coded +6: free enterprise against the labour federation's economic monopoly.
- Programme textJabotinsky demanded compulsory arbitration of strikes in the national interest.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +04
Coded +4: national discipline with a secular founder and a religious base.
- Documented act or statuteBetar's uniformed youth movement combined national ceremony with secular leadership.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +03
Coded +3: parliamentary and militarised, with a strong national leadership principle.
- Programme textBetar's oath bound members to the movement's discipline.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +03
Coded +3: a unitary state on both banks of the Jordan.
- Programme textThe 1925 programme claimed the whole Mandate territory.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +07
Coded +7: national membership by descent, with an iron wall doctrine toward the Arab population.
- Programme textThe Iron Wall (1923) argues no agreement is possible until Arab resistance is broken.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +04
Coded +4: force as an accepted instrument.
- Documented act or statuteThe Irgun split from the Haganah in 1931 over retaliation policy.
Where it came from, and what came after
- split fromLabour Zionism
Jabotinsky broke with the Zionist executive in 1925 over gradualism and the Arab question.
- becameLikud
Continuous through Herut, founded by the Irgun's commander in 1948.
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