The Irgun called themselves a terrorist organization in the mid-1940s.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources show the British and many commentators labeled the Irgun a terrorist organization in the 1940s, but none states that the Irgun itself called itself a terrorist organization. The Daily Beast ties the open self-description to Lehi, and Wikipedia says Irgun militants called themselves "Havlagah breakers," so the claim is neither confirmed nor refuted.
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… um, especially as the war against the British continued in the mid to late '40s in Palestine, um, you know, the issue was just so overwhelming that it didn't make any difference. Terrorism was the central conception. They don't call themselves that, although the Yigun actually did call themselves a terrorist organization, because in the mid-40s it didn't have the connotation it does today. They deliberately targeted civilian areas, not just British soldiers, but at the time of the war in Palestine, probably still a minority of Jews believed in Zionism. That changed a bit later. …
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Context. Multiple sources (FPIF, Wikipedia, Study.com, AcademiaLab, IMEU) say the British government or others labeled the Irgun a terrorist organization, which is a different thing from self-identification.[1][2][3][4][5]
Context. The Daily Beast says some radical Zionist factions 'openly described themselves as terrorists,' but its explicit self-description statement is about Lehi, the splinter group, not the Irgun.[6]
Context. Wikipedia says Irgun militants 'called themselves Havlagah breakers,' a self-description that is not 'terrorist.' No source states the Irgun called itself a terrorist organization in the mid-1940s.[2]
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- 1Running Off to War - FPIFfpif.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 2Zionist political violence - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Irgun Zvai Leumi | History, Revolts & Dissolution - Study.comstudy.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Irgun - AcademiaLabacademia-lab.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Timeline: The Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) & ...imeu.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6How Secret Russian Spy Kim Philby Helped Set Up Israelthedailybeast.com · not rated · cited for: context
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