Sunken ship sparks fight on Israel’s right over militia’s violent legacy

A race has emerged in right-wing Israeli politics over who can more closely associate themselves with Irgun, a militia implicated in the killing and torture of dozens of Palestinians during the 1948 war that led to the Nakba, the forced displacement of more than 750,000 Palestinians during the formation of the state of Israel.

On Monday, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-G...