State Of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern I... Apr 2026

Suárez posits that the Zionist movement’s use of terror during the British Mandate (1920–1948) was foundational to the state's birth. He details how this violence targeted three main groups:

While praised by some as a "tour de force" of archival research, the book has also been characterized as a "hard-hitting, ultimately one-note polemic". 'State of Terror,' by Thomas Suárez - Mondoweiss State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern I...

The book chronicles a "lengthy litany" of kidnappings, bombings, and assassinations. It focuses heavily on the activities of the and its more radical splinter groups, the Irgun (led by future Prime Minister Menachem Begin) and Lehi (the "Stern Gang"). Suárez argues these groups used their own secret internal papers to boast of successes that were simultaneously reported in daily headlines as indiscriminate massacres. Critical Reception Suárez posits that the Zionist movement’s use of

: To exhaust the Mandate administration through "war weariness" and force a withdrawal. It focuses heavily on the activities of the

: To facilitate ethnic cleansing and land appropriation.