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SUMMARY:Global networks of Zionist extremism\, 1937-48 - Redacted
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CONTACT:Christian Schlaepfer
DESCRIPTION:"This paper will shed light on the British-Zionist conflict in
  Palestine at the end of the Second World War through an examination of th
 e‘national liberation’ movements launched by right-wing\, Revisionist-
  Zionist militant groups\, the *Irgun Zvai Leumi* (National Military Organ
 isation) and *Lochmei Herut Israel* (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel -L
 HI). While it is well established in the literature that these two undergr
 ound military organisations initiated terrorist campaigns against the Brit
 ish mandate administration in Palestine in order to achieve the creation o
 f a Jewish state\, historians have tended to neglect the fact that this na
 tionalistic struggle was not limited to Palestine. Indeed\, it is rarely a
 cknowledged that the *Irgun *and LHI sought to extend their tactical and s
 trategic campaigns beyond the territorial boundaries of Palestine\, establ
 ishing operational networks and mobilizing support in the diaspora.\n\nThi
 s paper argues that the transnational dimensions of the Zionist-Revisionis
 t campaigns have been obscured by narrow\, Palestine-centric frameworks of
  enquiry. By shifting the analytic focus away from Palestine\, it brings t
 he interconnected and diasporic nature of the efforts of Revisionist-Zioni
 sts into focus and places the networks themselves at the centre of the his
 torical narrative. In constructing a new analytic framework\, the paper wi
 ll draw together a number of different arenas of Zionist-Revisionist activ
 ity that have until now been treated as separate areas of enquiry. It will
  reconstruct the movements of individuals and ideas through networks that 
 spread from Palestine\, to USA\, Europe and Asia and will examine both Bri
 tish perceptions of and responses to the existence of these anti-British n
 etworks\, as found in British government archives. "
LOCATION:Seminar Room N7\, Pembroke College
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