The Deir Yassin Massacre Never Happened
A myth engineered by Palestinian leaders.
May 30, 2018
The attempt to create an East African refuge from the Holocaust.
In 1903, a bitter dispute wracked the Zionist movement over whether to accept a British proposal to create a Jewish homeland in East Africa. Although the proposal is known to posterity as the Uganda plan, the area in question lies in modern-day Kenya. The Zionist Congress rejected the plan, but nonetheless a small Jewish community sprang up in Kenya around this time, as Yoḥai Ben-Gedalyah writes. (Pictures can be found at the link below.)
A myth engineered by Palestinian leaders.
An inspiration for Arafat and a victory for Iran.
A tough and realistic U.S. policy.
Look to the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr and Gerald McDermott.
The attempt to create an East African refuge from the Holocaust.
In 1903, a bitter dispute wracked the Zionist movement over whether to accept a British proposal to create a Jewish homeland in East Africa. Although the proposal is known to posterity as the Uganda plan, the area in question lies in modern-day Kenya. The Zionist Congress rejected the plan, but nonetheless a small Jewish community sprang up in Kenya around this time, as Yoḥai Ben-Gedalyah writes. (Pictures can be found at the link below.)
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