A national movement chose sacred return over material refuge needs.

Evidence

Yet at least since the “Uganda Affair” (1903), when the idea of a Jewish settlement outside Palestine (in East Africa) was rejected by the Zionist movement, the priority of the idea of “return” over the need for shelter was repeatedly declared and confirmed. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 317

Categorization

• SEED: Essays on when groups privilege sacred claims over rational-material self-preservation — the 1903 rejection as a durable case study of external-enemy/threat logic losing to ideological priority.
• QUESTION: Directly relevant to whether threat relief causes solidarity decay or manufactured-new-enemy: here the ‘return’ ideology outranked the shelter need even amid crisis.
• XREF: connects to: Nationalists borrow another movement’s sacred-claims template to justify land conquest — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 184

Broader Connections

• Nationalists borrow another movement’s sacred-claims template to justify land conquest #expands (0.82) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 184