The Jewish outlook., 1905-09-29
Review of the Past Year
Continued from Second Page.)

mas puDnCly characterized the BrlIlSn gov
ernments offer of East African colony
blood money paid in advance for the
Aliens Bill While such a view may with
propriety be rejected as not founded in fact
it has been proved that at no time had any
thing beyond mere municipal autonomy been
promised. There was apparently in the East
African project too much autonomy for the
anti-Zionsts-the Jewish Colonization Assoc
citation, for instance-and too little for the
ZiOniStS, of whom considerable number
objected to the scheme, as they had done at
the Sixth Zionist Congress, as not properly
falling within the scope of the Zionist move
ment.
The Actions Committee, after long and
comprehensive debate, arrived at the follow
ing resolution:
THAT having sent out to East Africa the
commission to examine the territory offered
by the British government for the purpose
of Jewish settlement, and received the re-
port of the commission, the Actions Com
mittee, having considered the report pre-
sented finds itself with regret unable to
recommend the Congress to proceed further
with the matter 1t has, however, appointed
committee to confer with other Jewish
bodies with view to determine whether
upon the report it is desirable that Jew
ish settlement should by them be undertaken
in the territory. 1t recommends the Con-
gress to place record the expression OF
it's deepest thanks for the whole-hearted Of
fer so graciously made by the British gov
eminent through the Zionist movement to
the Congress to convey it's thanks to those
who provided the means of sending out the
commission. and to the commissioners for
the manner in which they performed their
work.
This resolution, which practically rules
Uganda Mr.. Zangwils pet scheme, out of
tue Zionist programme, was concurred in by
both the English and the American Zionist
Federation, which met in the month of June.
The modern spies" have returned; their
report is, generally speaking, evil and the
Congregation Of Israel, a chimercal Nacht-
asyl gone. desperately clinging to the
hope of a Free Russia
While thus the pure" Zionists are al
most reverting to the methods of the pre-
political" Zionism of the Hobabe Zion
cieties, they sedulouSly eliminate, with GER
tain air of Indifference, the religious ele-
ment, often engaging in warfare with the
rahi Zionists opened at Pressburg on
August 81, 1904. Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reiness
of Ida, Russia, the leader of the party, pre-
sided. The following program was adopted:
The MiZrahi is an organization OF OrthO-
doX ZiOnists who, on the basis of the Basel
program, believe the faithful adherence to
the Tora and the tradition in all matters
pertaining to Jewish life and the longing for
the land of the fathers to constitute the task
of the Jewish people and the conditions IA
vOrable to it's preservation.
The Mizrahi, in short, are Zionists with
plus, and this plus is Judaism as a religion,
in it's traditional form. The leaders of Ger
man orthodoxy do not fail to express their
dissatisfaction with the minut w-apikorsut,
the irreigious announcements, of great
many of the Zionist spokesman. The aim
of the Mizrahi faction is to counterfeit the
anti-religious declarations SO as to make it