Zionists committed a number of acts of political violence in support of establishing and maintaining a Jewish state in Palestine. These actions have been carried out by individuals, paramilitary group
Aftermath of the King David Hotel bombing, blown up by the Irgun after Operation Agatha in 1946
Zionist leaders arrested in Operation Agatha amid attacks by the Jewish Resistance Movement in the insurgency against the British. Left to right: David Remez, Moshe Sharett, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Dov Yosef, Shenkarsky, David Hacohen, Halperin.
British sergeants Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice kidnapped and hanged by the Zionist paramilitary organization Irgun in 1947.
Israeli soldiers with detained Palestinian women and children in Tantura on May 23 1948, the date of the Tantura massacre.
The Haganah was the main Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the British Mandate for Palestine. It was founded in 1920 to defend the Yishuv's presence in the region, and
Zionist political violence
…rule and as part of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In the pre-state period (1920s–1940s), Zionist paramilitaries such as the Irgun, Lehi, Haganah and Palmach engaged in violent campaigns against British authorities, Palestinian Arabs, and more moderate Jews to advance their political goals. Targets…
Haganah poster from the 1940s
Haganah fighters guarding Migdal Tzedek, 1936
In 1940 a Haganah bomb sank the SS Patria, killing 267 people.
Marching Jewish troops in the British army (1942)