Jabotinsky

[ yab-uh-tin-skee, yah-buh- ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

My criticism of the left is not meant to excuse the Zionist movement and Israel's degrading treatment of Palestinians since at least the 1930s, when leaders such as Ze’ev Jabotinsky were unapologetically racist, or since 1967, when Israel conquered and occupied Gaza and the West Bank.

From Salon

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

Charles’ hero is Vladimir Jabotinsky, the militant leader of the Revisionist movement that planted the ideological seeds of Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party.

From Los Angeles Times

Alon Pinkas, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, calls the coalition government, scheduled to take power within the next week or so, "a kakistocracy extraordinaire: government by the worst and least suitable collection of ultra-nationalists, Jewish supremacists, anti-democrats, racists, bigots, homophobes, misogynists, corrupt and allegedly corrupt politicians. A ruling coalition of 64 lawmakers, of whom 32 are either ultra-Orthodox or religious Zionist. Certainly not a coalition Zeev Jabotinsky, the father of Revisionist Zionism, or Menachem Begin, the founder of Likud, could have ever imagined."

From Salon

Drawing on recent scholarship suggesting that the Zionist movement was not always committed to establishing a Jewish state and that Zionist leaders like Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion and Ze’ev Jabotinsky all supported the idea of a binational Jewish-Arab state at one point or another, Boehm proposes transforming Israel into a “federal, binational republic.”

From New York Times