Brit HaBirionim

Brit HaBirionim (Hebrew: ברית הבריונים, variously translated as The Strongmen Alliance,[1] Alliance of the Hoodlums,[2] and The Covenant of the Outlaws[3]) was a clandestine, self-declared fascist faction of the Revisionist Zionist Movement (ZRM) in Mandatory Palestine, active between 1930 and 1933.

The 1929 Palestine riots and the Haganah's inability to successfully prevent the 1929 Hebron and Safed massacres led to the creation of the first militant organization characterized by its complete disassociation from the existing Zionist establishment.

[6] Brit HaBirionim was founded in October 1930 and was right-wing and nationalist in its orientation in contrast to the Labor Zionism majority.

[2] The organization's ideology was Revisionist Maximalism, which was modelled upon Italian Fascism;[4][5][7] Ahimeir suggested that Ze'ev Jabotinsky be referred to as 'duce'.

[11][12] In 1932, Ahimeir also called for Members of Brit HaBirionim carried out several "minor operations", including demonstrations against the British, interfering with British census takers, removing the Nazi flag from two German consulates, and other activities that would now be considered religious freedom but at the time were forbidden for Jews, e.g. blowing the Shofar at the Western Wall in celebration of Rosh Hashanah.