Israeli Settlement In Argentina: A Time When The World Was A Cake For Zionists To Slice

In 1896, the Hungarian activist and journalist Théodore Herzl authored a book called Der Judenstaat or The Jewish State in which he discussed the displacement of Jews and suggested several countries in which the Jewish people could form settlements. Back then, the Zionist project not only looked at Palestinian lands, but also the Sinai peninsula, Kenya, and Argentina. Herzl’s name is heralded as the fathering figure of modern-day Zionism and appointed its leader in 1897.

Herzl said in his Jewish State that the Jewish people were left to decide whether to settle in Argentina or not, making the observation that Argentina was one of the most fertile lands that would bring profit.

Consequently, in 1889 hundreds of Jewish people arrived in Argentina with the help of the Jewish Colonial Association. They bought land and founded Moise Ville town, which exists to this day and is called the ‘Jerusalem of South America’. During the 1940s more than 5,000 Zionists lived in the Moise Ville colony. However, most of them relocated to Palestine after the 1948 great Nakba.

While the Jewish state was the product of many complex historical forces, the holocaust of the Second World War as the most recent of them. The name of Herzl is recognized as a major political force that has aroused the enthusiasm of the Jewish masses.

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