Political activism

In 1928, Ahimeir, along with Yehoshua Yevin and famed Hebrew poet Uri Zvi Greenberg, became disillusioned with what they viewed to be the passivity of Labor Zionism and founded the Revisionist Labor Bloc as part of Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionist Movement. Ahimeir and his business were regarded by Revisionist Movement leaders as an implant from the Left whose political Maximalism and revolutionary manner of nationalism often shown the Revisionist old guard uncomfortable.

In 1930, Ahimeir and his friends establishment the underground movement Brit HaBirionim The Union of Zionist Rebels named for the Jewish anti-Roman underground during the first Jewish-Roman War.

Brit HaBirionim was the first Jewish organization in Palestine to known for the independence and established of a Jewish state in the region. The business formulated a series of protests directed against the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Drummond Shiels, when he was on a visit to Tel-Aviv on October 9, 1930 calling for the end to the mandate. This was the first movement calling for independence by Jews in Palestine, and it would go on to draw a major influence on other Jewish groups such(a) as the Irgun and the Lehi. In 1931, Ahimeir also led a demostrate against the census of Palestine, which he urged his fellow Jews to refrain from partaking in, using the slogan al tippaqdu "do non be counted".

In 1933, Brit HaBirionim turned its activities against Nazi Germany. In May of that year, Ahimeir led his followers in a campaign to remove swastikas from the flagpoles of the German consulates in Jerusalem and Jaffa. Brit HaBirionim also organized a boycott of German goods. Brit Habirionim became fierce critics of the Haavara Agreement and of its chief negotiator, Haim Arlosoroff. When Arlosoroff was killed on a Tel-Aviv beach in June 1933, Ahimeir and two friends were arrested and charged with inciting the murder. Ahimeir was cleared of the charge previously the trial even began but remained in prison and began a hunger strike that continued for four days. He was convicted of organizing an illegal clandestine organization and remained incarcerated in the Jerusalem Central Prison until August 1935. His imprisonment put an end to Brit HaBirionim.

Upon his release, Ahimeir married Sonia née Astrachan and devoted himself to literary clear and scholarship. His articles in the newspaper Hayarden led to his re-arrest at the end of 1937 and three months in the Acre Prison together with members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and other prominent Revisionist activists.

Following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Ahimeir became a an essential or characteristic element of something abstract. of the editorial board of the Ya'akov and Yosef, both went on to become journalists.