''Hazit HaAm'' ( he, חזית העם, lit. ''Front of the People'') was a weekly newspaper associated with

Revisionist Zionism Revisionist Zionism is an ideology developed by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who advocated a "revision" of the "practical Zionism" of David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann which was focused on the settling of ''Eretz Yisrael'' (Land of Israel) by independent ...

published in Palestine between January 1932 and June 1934. The paper was established in 1931 by Yehoshua Lichter. It closed in 1934, and was succeeded by '' HaYarden'' and ''

HaMashkif ''HaMashkif'' (, lit. ''The Observer'') was a Hebrew language daily newspaper in Mandatory Palestine. Published between 1938 and 1948, it was owned by Hatzohar, the Revisionist party. The newspaper was established in 1938 in Tel Aviv, succeeding ...

''. The newspaper is noted for its tolerant or even supportive attitude towards some aspects of

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ideology. When

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and the ...

rose to power in 1933, it stated that "If some segments of our people draw the appropriate conclusions from the Hitlerism ic then we will be able to say that something good came out of a bad situation." The newspaper also approved of Hitler's

anti-communism Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...

, stating that "the anti-Semitic husk should be discarded, but not its anti-Marxist inside." The praise of Nazism reportedly stopped after leading Revisionist thinker

Ze'ev Jabotinsky Ze'ev Jabotinsky ( he, זְאֵב זַ׳בּוֹטִינְסְקִי, ''Ze'ev Zhabotinski'';, ''Wolf Zhabotinski'' 17 October 1880 – 3 August 1940), born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leade ...

called for "a total end to this abomination.". The paper folded in 1934.

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