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Israel in East Africa

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In 1903 the World Zionist Organisation received an offer from the British government of a homeland for the Jews in what is now Kenya. The Zionist leader Theodor Herzl took it seriously but was branded a traitor for considering anywhere other than
Palestine, while the prospect of a Jewish colony in their midst threw the British settlers in East Africa into an anti-Semitic frenzy. The rejection of the offer in 1905 led to a breakaway Jewish movement that believed Arab-occupied Palestine too fraught for colonisation and set about exploring possible sites in Libya, Angola and Australia. Producer Mark Whitaker

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Leader:
Theodor Herzl
Producer:
Mark Whitaker
Source: Radio Times

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