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Jabotinsky

American  
[yab-uh-tin-skee, yah-buh-] / ˌyæb əˈtɪn ski, ˌyɑ bə- /

noun

  1. Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.


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Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Revisionist Zionism that produced the Likud Party, stated bluntly: “Every native population in the world resists colonists.”

From Seattle Times

Nor did they appreciate the prescience of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the brilliant, charismatic founder of Revisionist Zionism, whom Gordis calls Zionism’s “guiding spirit.”

From New York Times

Jabotinsky was not Zionism’s guiding spirit, because Zionism never had one.

From New York Times

The team was part of Zeev Jabotinsky’s Beitar movement — the “Revisionist Zionist” philosophy combining the idea of a Jewish homeland with nationalist politics — and rivaled the Zionist movement headed by Israel’s founding father David Ben-Gurion.

From Washington Post

But Ben-Gurion reserved his most hostile antipathy for Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder of the militantly uncompromising Revisionist Zionist movement, and his disciple, the future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, both of whom he deemed extremists.

From Washington Post