Introduction

In 1820, there was a Jewish guy named Mordecai Noah, and he 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, British colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain said a great place for the Jewish homeland would be in Africa and Kenya. 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 of which was stated by the founders as to just find and establish a Jewish homeland on the earth somewhere, somewhere. But that didn't work either. Then in March of