{"id":4401,"date":"2021-11-24T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new2022.foz.co.il\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2022-11-17T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:30:58","slug":"jewish-homeland-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fozmuseum.com\/blog\/jewish-homeland-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jewish Homeland -In Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Can one possibly imagine the Jewish state existing anywhere else except in the Holy Land, the Land of Israel? \u00a0Well, indeed there was such a proposal put forth and seriously considered \u2013 though ultimately rejected \u2013 in the early 20th\u00a0century.<\/p>

The Uganda Plan\u00a0was a proposal suggested by Britain in the early 1900s to give a portion of\u00a0British East Africa\u00a0to the\u00a0Jewish\u00a0people as a homeland. While the plan was unsuccessful, it was attractive to some early Zionists as a \u201cdoable\u201d short-term solution to deal with the stateless, defenseless situation of the Jewish people. It drew support from no less than\u00a0Theodor Herzl, founder of the modern Zionist movement, as a temporary refuge for\u00a0European Jews\u00a0facing\u00a0antisemitism.<\/p>

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Then British\u00a0Colonial Secretary\u00a0Joseph Chamberlain, who raised the plan, noted that, \u201cIf Dr Herzl were at all inclined to transfer his efforts to East Africa, there would be no difficulty in finding land suitable for Jewish settlers.\u201d<\/p>

Chamberlain offered 13,000 square kilometers (5,000\u00a0sq.\u00a0miles) at\u00a0Uasin Gishu\u00a0(also spelled \u201cGwas Ngishu\u201d), an isolated area atop the\u00a0Mau Escarpment. The land was thought suitable because of its temperate climate and its relative isolation, being surrounded by the\u00a0Mau Forest. It was hoped the area could be a refuge from persecution for the Jewish people. The land was not in fact in Uganda but in the British controlled\u00a0East Africa Protectorate\u00a0(modern Kenya)<\/p>

In 1903, Herzl met with Chamberlain and other high-ranking British officials who agreed in principle to Jewish settlement in East Africa. At the\u00a0Sixth Zionist Congress\u00a0at Basel on August 26, 1903,\u00a0Herzl\u00a0proposed the British Uganda Program as a temporary refuge for Jews in\u00a0Russia\u00a0in immediate danger. By a vote of 295-178 it was decided to send an expedition (\u201cinvestigatory commission\u201d) to examine the territory proposed.<\/p>

While Herzl made it clear that this program would not affect the ultimate aim of Zionism \u2014 a Jewish entity in the Land of Israel \u2014 the proposal aroused a storm at the Zionist Congress and nearly led to a split in the Zionist movement. The Jewish Territorialist Organization was formed as a result of the unification of various groups who had supported Herzl\u2019s Uganda proposals during the period 1903-1905.<\/p>

The Uganda Program was finally rejected by the Zionist movement at the Seventh Zionist Congress in 1905. There were many \u2013 not only Jews, but also devout, Bible believing Christians \u2014 who could not tolerate the idea that a Jewish homeland could be considered anywhere else than in the land promised by God to Abraham and his descendants. Indeed, an early Christian Zionist, William Blackstone, sent Herzl his personal Bible, marked with all references to the Land of Israel, to remind him of the ideal of the Jews returning to their homeland. The reference to Blackstone and this incident of his Bible can be heard in the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem<\/a> galleries.<\/p>

There were continued sporadic suggestions for other territories in the world to \u00a0be considered as suitable sites for a Jewish homeland, but ultimately all of these fell by the wayside after the issuance of the British\u00a0Balfour Declaration\u00a0of 1917, which pledged the support of the British government for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.<\/p>

Thus ended the rather brief and perhaps bizarre saga of a Jewish homeland being created in the heart of Africa. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can one possibly imagine the Jewish state existing anywhere else except in the Holy Land, the Land of Israel? \u00a0Well, indeed there was such a proposal put forth and seriously considered \u2013 though ultimately rejected \u2013 in the early 20th\u00a0century. 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