The State of Sion, in the Australian Confederacy, goes back to the movement, founded by British author and activist Israel Zangwill, with the formal name of "The Jewish Territorial Organization" in 1905. Zangwill believed it would not be possible to obtain a national home for the Jews in the historical land of Israel ("Palestine"), and so he sought to establish national homes elsewhere. Initially, there were no practical results to this program aside from settling a few thousand Jews in Galveston, Texas (U.S.A.) and Colonia de Zangwill in Argentina. In the aftermath of the First World War, with the British commitment to establishing Arab successor states in the former Ottoman domain, Chaim Weizman and other Zionist found their further settlement blocked in the Holy Land. The formerly dismi