FACT CHECK · ZIONISM
Claim: Russia already gave the Jews a homeland
MISLEADINGTHE ANSWER
Stalin's Jewish Autonomous Oblast (1934) is real, but Jews were never a majority there, peaking at about 25%. The 2021 Russian census found 837 Jews left.
SOURCE
Russian census 2021; Encyclopaedia Britannica (Jewish Autonomous Oblast)
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