The Ashkenazi Revolution

312forcibly evicting the British authorities from Palestine, allowingunrestricted immigration of Jews and the formation of a Jewish state.Leon CastroLéon Castro conductedpropaganda for the Wafd party in Europe after the 1919 nationalist uprisingand founded and edited a pro-Wafd French language newspaper, LaLiberté, after returning to Egypt. He was simultaneously the head of theZionist Organization of Cairo and the representative of the Jewish Agency forPalestine in Egypt. (http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/5-1/text/beinin.html)Leon PinskerLeon Pinsker, (1821, TomaszówLubelski, Poland, then Russian Empire, – 1891, Odessa), Russian Empire) wasa physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader ofthe Hovevei Zion, also known as Hibbat Zion (Lovers of Zion) movement.LilienblumMoshe Leib Lilienblum wasa Jewish scholar and author born in Keidany, Kovno, October 22, 1843. In1883 a committee was organized at Odessa for the colonization of Palestine,Lilienblum serving as secretary and Dr. Leon Pinsker, authorof Autoemancipation, as president. With the Hibbat Zion conference inKatowice, in which Lilienblum took an earnest and energetic part assecretary, representatives of European Jewry met and discussed the firstplans for colonization in Palestine, a foundation stone was laid forthe Zionist movement.Lishanksky Yosef Lishansky (1890 –December 16, 1917) was a Jewish paramilitary and a spy for the Britishin Ottoman Palestine. Upon his arrival in Palestine, Lishansky sought tojoin HaShomer but, denied membership, he founded a rivalorganization, HaMagen. Several years later, he joined the Jewish espionageorganization, Nili. Lishansky was wanted by the Ottomans for his activitiesand was betrayed by HaShomer when he sought refuge with them. Heescaped capture several times, but was eventually caught and sentenced todeath in Damascus.Lovers of ZionHovevei Zion, also knownas Hibbat Zion (Lovers of Zion), refers to organizations that are nowconsidered the forerunners and foundation-builders of modern Zionism.Many of these first groups were established in Eastern European countries inthe early 1880s with the aim to promote Jewish immigration to the Land of