Herzl and the Non-Promised Land

Unpacking Israeli History

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

After over 70 years of existence, it’s impossible to imagine the Jewish State being located anywhere other than Israel. But in the early days of Zionism, there was a push to establish a homeland in a non-Promised Land in East Africa. This week, Noam Weissman gets to the heart of the Uganda Plan and discusses why the movement’s leaders felt they needed to come up with a solution — any solution — to combat the rampant antisemitism of the day. ~~~~~ The Unpacking Israeli History Podcast series is sponsored by Andrea & Larry Gill ~~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked Teaching about this topic? Check out our relevant educator resources here: https://unpacked.education/video/herzl-the-zionist-dream-of-a-jewish-state/ ~~~~~ Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Norm Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history,
0:04.0	the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense,
0:07.6	historically fascinating, and confusing events in Israeli history.
0:12.0	All that in just about 20 minutes.
0:14.6	Yala, let's do this. We the people of Israel are
0:25.0	people Israel.
0:27.0	We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious
0:31.0	to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.
0:36.0	There are people in Israel elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace within the Arabs in Israel or the Jewish people.
0:45.1	I think they're home.
0:47.1	What do Grant Island, New York, the Benguela Plateau in Angola, Madagascar, Port
0:57.2	Dave Tasmania and Suriname all have in common? Each of them were at one point considered as potential locations for the creation of a Jewish state.
1:09.0	Bet you didn't know that.
1:11.0	Imagine a world in which the Jewish state was actually not in
1:15.0	the ancestral Jewish homeland. Well, for a hot minute there was actually a serious
1:20.2	option on the table. This was called the Uganda Plan. Close your eyes for a
1:25.8	moment. Be vulnerable. Try it out. Imagine that you were going to the Jewish
1:31.3	state for a work trip, a vacation or whatever.
1:34.4	You board L.O. flight, I don't know, LY001, and instead of flying to the land of Israel,
1:42.1	your flight lands in the savanna.
1:44.0	In today's episode, we will be telling the incredible story
1:48.6	of how Theodore Herzl, credited as the father of political Zionism brought the Uganda plan to the table.
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