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The British Uganda Programme, also known as the Uganda Scheme, was a proposal by the British Empire to establish a semi-autonomous Jewish territory in British East Africa. Conceived during the height
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" in Basel, 1903.
The Jewish Territorial Organisation, known as the ITO, was a Jewish political movement which first arose in 1903 in response to the British Uganda Scheme, but only institutionalized in 1905. Its main
British Uganda Programme
…turning point in Zionist history. Although it was rejected in 1905, it paved the way for the rise of territorialist ideology and the creation of the Jewish Territorial Organization (ITO). The ITO stressed the pressing need to find a solution to condition of European Jewry, even if it meant giving up the return to the Land of Israel…
Members of the Jewish Territorial Organization in Basel, Switzerland, 1905