1910 ⟶ Zionist Conspiracy Theories Fuelled in British Government
Antisemitic Zionist conspiracy theories regarding the Ottoma...
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1840
1904
1910
✍️ Lord Palmerston Encourages Jewish Settlement
Lord Palmerston writes to Lord Ponsonby, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire: "There exists at the present time among the Jews dispersed over Europe, a strong notion that the time is approaching when their nation is to return to Palestine... It would be of manifest importance to the Sultan to encourage the Jews to return and settle in Palestine because the wealth which they would bring with them would increase the resources of the Sultan's dominions; and the Jewish people, if returning under the sanction and protection, and at the invitation of the Sultan, would be a check upon any future evil designs of Mehemet Ali (of Egypt) or his successor... I have to instruct Your Excellency strongly to re-commend (to the Turkish Government) to hold out every just encouragement to the Jews of Europe to return to Palestine."⟶
Lord PalmerstonBritish Foreign PolicyZionismJewish SettlementOttoman Empire19th CenturyPalestineDiplomacyJewish Emigration
United Kingdom
Palestine
Turkey🇮🇱 Second Aliyah: Jewish Immigration to Palestine
The Second Aliyah occurs. Approximately 40,000 Jews immigrated into Ottoman Palestine, mostly from Russia. The prime cause for the aliyah was mounting anti-Semitism in Russia and pogroms in the Pale of Settlement. Nearly half of these immigrants left Palestine by the time World War I started.⟶
AliyahZionismImmigrationPalestineOttoman EmpireRussiaAnti-SemitismJewish Diaspora
Ottoman Empire
Russia📜 Zionist Conspiracy Theories Fuelled in British Government
Antisemitic Zionist conspiracy theories regarding the Ottoman Young Turk ruling elite are fuelled within the British government through diplomatic correspondence from Gerard Lowther (British Ambassador to Constantinople) and Gilbert Clayton (Chief of British intelligence in Egypt)⟶
ZionismAnti-SemitismBritish GovernmentOttoman EmpireConspiracy TheoriesPolitical IntrigueDiplomacyIntelligence
United KingdomOttoman Empire