The Original terrorists Rahm Emanuel's Father Specialized in Bus Bombings in Palestine British MI-6 files contain information on the elder Emanuel's participation in the terrorist activities of Irgun Zvai Leumi, a Jewish terrorist organization that targeted British forces, UN officials, and Palestinian Arabs in the lead up to Israeli independence in 1948. Benjamin Emanuel, a Jew from Russia whose real name was Ezekiel Auerbach, was arrested by British police for terrorist activities in the months prior to Israeli independence. Many of the British policemen were killed by Emanuel and his Irgun colleagues between 1947 and 1948 http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january262011/emanuel-palestine.php