(1880-1940) A Jewish Zionist of Russian origin. Jabotinksy came to Palestine first as a soldier with the British Jewish Legion during World War I, a legion that Jabotinsky helped construct. The founder of Revisionist Zionism in 1925, he sponsored a more assertive and non-socialist approach to building the Jewish homeland in Palestine than that of Labor Zionism. He also became a supporter of militant actions against the British presence in Palestine in order to more quickly assert the Jewish right to political sovereignty in the area. See Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001; and “Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky.” Jewish Virtual Library. 9 September 2011. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/jabotinsky.html.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/jabotinsky-zeev