The Irgun has been viewed as a terrorist organization or organization which carried out terrorist acts.[3][4] Specifically the organization "committed acts of terrorism and assassination against the British, whom it regarded as illegal occupiers, and it was also violently anti-Arab" according to the Encyclopædia Britannica.[5] In particular the Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by the United Nations, British, and United States governments; in media such as The New York Times newspaper;[6][7] as well as by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry,[8][9] the 1946 Zionist Congress[10] and the Jewish Agency.[11] Irgun's tactics appealed to many Jews who believed that any action taken in the cause of the creation of a Jewish state was justified, including terrorism.[12]