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
Dutch Jewish lawyer, journalist, and poet Jacob Israël de Haan became active against Zionism after having migrated to Palestine. In 1924, Haganah member Avraham Tehomi assassinated de Haan in Jerusalem on the orders of leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi before de Haan was due to go to London to advocate against Zionism.
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.
The Betar Movement, also spelled Beitar, is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder and first leader of Betar, shown here in Jewish Legion uniform.
Vladimir Jabotinsky in the company of Betar commanders, Palestine
Members of Betar in Europe, circa 1934
Members of Betar movement at a summer camp in the Polish resort town Zakopane in 1935