Abraham Stern

Summary

The leader of the Stern Group, named in the United Nations study’s quotation of an official British document on the wartime terrorist campaign in Palestine (Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: 1917-1947 (Part I), lines 1187-1191).

In the official British document quoted in the study, “In 1942, a small group of Zionist extremists, led by Abraham Stern, came into prominence with a series of politically motivated murders and robberies in the Tel Aviv area” (Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem: 1917-1947 (Part I), lines 1187-1189).
The same quoted document records that on 6 November 1944 the British Minister of State in the Middle East (Lord Moyne) was assassinated in Cairo by two members of the Stern group, and that the outrages perpetrated by the Stern group and the Irgun were condemned by the official spokesmen of the Jewish community (lines 1189-1191).
In the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry material quoted in the study, the Stern Group broke away from the Irgun early in the war when the Irgun announced an “armistice”, engages in terrorism, and its strength is said to be between 200 and 300 (lines 1255-1267).

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