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![The Militarization of the Revisionist Movement
Jabotinsky's last act was to inspect a Betar parade. Betar, the
Revisionist youth organization, was described by a number of critics as
another "brown shirt" movement of the 1930s.
Jabotinsky constantly explained it was just an accident that his youth wore the same brown shirts as the Nazis' Sturm Abteilung , but the image of the Revisionists as the Jewish Nazis persisted. The similarities - chauvinism, militarism, a demagogic appeal to the middle classes and a hatred of the labor movement and the left - were simply too obvious to be ignored. ... It is known that several Betarim did in fact attend Fascist Party training schools. Terrorist attacks on Zionist rivals were routine in Poland.
When Robert Gessner, an American Communist journalist, was in
Poland in the mid-30s, he saw the Betarim in Poland "march through the
streets and wear shirts like their Nordic brothers in Germany. ...I had seen
them singing 'Poland for Pilsudski, Germany for Hitler, Palestine for
Jews.' " Although this particular slogan may have been new, the militarization of Revisionism was not. Joseph Schechtman, Jabotinsky's official biographer, reports that between July 1924 and February 1925 every public meeting in Paris addressed by Jabotinsky
was the scene of well-planned heckling and disturbance [by Jewish Communists and Bundists]. ...Young supporters of Jabotinsky organized a "self defense" composed mainly of the Student Corps, Barissa. ... When the usual riot had started, the troublemakers were soundly thrashed and kicked rather roughly downstairs.
In Palestine they, along with the "Battalion of the Defenders of the
Language," "repeatedly broke up meetings in Yiddish on the grounds that
speaking a 'Diaspora' language in Palestine was profaning Zion.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zfysi73b7avlxkfukg6crgkq/bafkreig56jjtd4liwsb6uqdrehvpmolnluyejhwo7idmlzi667a47vu7vm)
