Wikipedia's first sentence called it “plan to give a portion of british east africa to the jewish people as a homeland”. Today it says “proposal by the british empire to establish a semi-autonomous jewish territory in british east africa”.
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British Uganda Program was a plan to give a portion of British East Africa to the Jewish people as a homeland.1The offer was first made by British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain to Theodore Herzl 's Zionist group in 1902 . He offered 5000 square miles of the Mau Plateau in what is today Kenya . The offer was a response to pogroms against the Jews in Russia , and it was hoped the area could be a refuge from persecution for the Jewish people. The idea was brought to the Zionist Congress at a 1903 meeting in Basel . There a fierce debate ensued. The African land was described as an "ante-chamber to the Holy Land", but other groups felt that accepting the offer would make it more difficult to establish a Jewish state in Palestine . Before the vote on the matter the Russian delegation stormed out in opposition. In the end the motion passed by 295 to 177 votes. The next year a three man delegation was sent to inspect the plateau. Its high elevation gave it a temperate climate making it suitable for European settlement. However the observers found a dangerous land filled with lions and other creatures. Moreover it was populated by a large number of Masai who did not seem at all amenable to an influx of Europeans. After receiving this report the Congress decided in 1905 to politely decline the British offer. Some Jews viewed this as a mistake and the Jewish Territorialist Organization split with the explicit aim of establishing a Jewish state anywhere, not just in the Holy Land. A handful of Jews did move to Kenya, but most settled in the urban centres. Some of these families remain to this day. The proposal was revived during the Second World War by Winston Churchill , but by this time Zionist organizations were firmly committed to settling in Palestine.2
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The British Uganda Programme was a plan to give a portion of British East Africa to the Jewish people as a homeland.
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The Uganda Scheme was a plan in the early 1900s to give a portion of British East Africa to the Jewish people as a homeland.It drew support from prominent Zionist Theodor Herzl as a temporary means of refuge for Russian Jews facing antisemitism .
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Die Welt report on Lord Cromer 's support of the Uganda plan The Uganda Scheme was a British plan to allocate a portion of East Africa for the creation of a Jewish homeland.Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl proposed accepting the offer as a temporary refuge in light of the rise of antisemitic sentiment in Europe and the existential threat to the Jewish people.
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1903 plan for a Jewish homeland in British East Africa A newspaper with a greeting on the occasion of the opening of the sixth Zionist Congress and an illustration of Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the "Three Angels" hotel in Basel.The Uganda Scheme was a proposal by British colonist Joseph Chamberlain to create a Jewish homeland in a portion of British East Africa .It was presented at the Sixth World Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903 by Theodor Herzl , the founder of the modern Zionist movement.He presented it as a temporary refuge for Jews to escape rising antisemitism in Europe.The proposal faced opposition from both the Zionist movement and the British Colony.In the shadow of the struggle (1st ed.).Israel/Palestine and the politics of a two-state solution .OCLC 823897667 . : CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link )
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The opening as it stood in 2025
1903 plan for a Jewish homeland in British East Africa A newspaper with a greeting on the occasion of the opening of the sixth Zionist Congress and an illustration of Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the " Hotel Les Trois Rois " hotel in Basel. The Uganda Scheme was a proposal by British colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain to create a Jewish homeland in a portion of British East Africa . It was presented at the Sixth World Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903 by Theodor Herzl , the founder of the modern Zionist movement. He presented it as a temporary refuge for Jews to escape rising antisemitism in Europe . The proposal faced opposition from both within the Zionist movement and from the British Colony . In the shadow of the struggle (1st ed.). Israel/Palestine and the politics of a two-state solution . OCLC 823897667 . : CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link )
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “plan to give a portion of british east africa to the jewish people as a homeland”. Today it says “proposal by the british empire to establish a semi-autonomous jewish territory in british east africa”. Read the current article and compare.
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plan to give a portion of british east africa to the jewish people as a homeland
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proposal by the british empire to establish a semi-autonomous jewish territory in british east africa
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