FACT CHECK · ZIONISM
Claim: Zionism's founding slogan was Zangwill's 1901 line
FALSETHE ANSWER
The founding congress was 1897, 4 years before Zangwill's line. Its own source (Muir, 2008): Christian writers coined 'a land without a people' (Shaftesbury, 1853) and early Zionists rarely used it.
SOURCE
Diana Muir, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2008
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