Introduction

In 1820, a Jewish guy named Mordecai Noah tried to set up with a bunch of other Jews what we would be called a homeland for the Jews in New York. Well, it didn't work. So they move on. In 1903, the British colonial secretary said a great place for the Jewish homeland would be in Africa and Kenya. That didn't work either. And two years later, in 1905, a large group of angry and frustrated European Jews formed an organization called the Jewish Territorialist Organization. The aim was stated by the founders as to just find and establish a Jewish homeland on the earth somewhere, somewhere. But after a while, that didn’t work either