Editing Uganda Scheme (section)

{{short description|1903 plan for a Jewish homeland in British East Africa}}
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[[File:Hazefirah 8-1903.jpg|thumb|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]]" hotel in Basel.]]
The '''Uganda Scheme''' was a proposal by [[British Empire|British]] [[Secretary of State for the Colonies|colonial secretary]] [[Joseph Chamberlain]] to create a [[Jewish homeland]] in a portion of [[British East Africa]]. It was presented at the [[Sixth Zionist Congress|Sixth World Zionist Congress]] in [[Basel]] in [[1903]] by [[Theodor Herzl]], the founder of the modern [[Zionist]] movement. He presented it as a temporary refuge for Jews to escape rising [[antisemitism in Europe]]. The proposal faced opposition from both within the [[Zionist Movement|Zionist movement]] and from the [[British Colony]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Birnbaum |first=Ervin |url=https://archive.org/details/inshadowofstrugg0000birn/page/40/mode/2up |title=In the shadow of the struggle |publisher=Gefen Publishing House |year=1990 |isbn=965-229-037-8 |edition=1st |location=Jerusalem |pages=40–43 |oclc=23184270 |access-date=11 August 2023 |url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Thomas G. |title=Israel/Palestine and the politics of a two-state solution |date=2013 |isbn=978-0-7864-7597-1 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |oclc=823897667}}</ref>