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Uganda Scheme
Theodore Herzl, the visionary who founded Zionism, was an assimilated
Jew, who did not consider Palestine the optimal choice for a resurgent
Jewish nationalism.
When the British offered to him a homeland in East Africa (today's
Uganda), he accepted and proposed it to the Sixth Zionist Congress in
Basle in 1903. After bitter recriminations, the Congress decided (295
for, 178 against) to send an "investigatory commission" to the
territory to inspect it and report back.
Herzl vowed that the Uganda scheme is not a substitute for the
reclamation of Palestine as the historic homeland of the Jewish
people. But his actions defied his speech. He pursued the British
proposal to his death (in 1904) as did many other prominent Jewish
leaders, organized in the Jewish Territorialist Organization (ITO).
The plan was decisively abandoned only after the Balfour Declaration
which granted the Jewish people a homeland in Palestine under the
British mandate.
Yet, in the meantime, other territorial plans emerged: in Canada,
Australia, Iraq, Libya, and Angola.
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