FACT CHECK · ZIONISM, UGANDA SCHEME
Claim: Why not Uganda? It was offered as a temporary refuge
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Offered in 1903 after the Kishinev pogrom as a temporary refuge. Herzl: "Zion this certainly is not." The 7th Zionist Congress rejected it in 1905.
SOURCE
Jewish Virtual Library, The Uganda Proposal
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