The Tagar Zionist Student Activist Movement is a strident voice for Zionist and Jewish activism at colleges and universities around the world.   The movement was founded in 1983 as an expansion of the Betar Zionist Youth Movement, which itself was founded by Zionist visionary Ze’ev Jabotinsky in 1923.  The name itself comes from a Hebrew word that was used by Jabotinsky to connote “the spirit with which one takes on a challenge.”

Today, Tagar remains the visionary group of Zionist revisionism in America today.  Tagar promotes pro-Israel activism and programming on campus.  Tagar promotes activist campaigns such as rallies, demonstrations, sit-ins, letter writing and publicity campaigns. 

Past campaigns have included the fight for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, and Syria, supporting and working on the Freedom for Jonathan Pollard campaign, including getting many other organizations to sign on, the fight to deport Nazi John Demjanjuk from his home in a Cleveland suburb, campaigns to expose the PLO for the terrorist organization they are, Holocaust education and fighting against Holocaust revisionism, and campaigns to support the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. 

Tagar also sponsors an annual winter trip to Israel.  The website features a link to the trip’s page. 

Click here to connect to TagarNET, Betar Canada’s campus program.

Click here to connect to SUNY Albany’s Tagar webpage.