> within two months a memorandum was circulated to the Cabinet by a Zionist Cabinet member, Herbert Samuel, proposing the support of Zionist ambitions in order to enlist the support of Jews in the wider war.<p>I'm confused. In 1900, Jews were only 0.6% of the UK population [1,2], and 1.3% of the US population [3,4]. Why was the support of such a tiny fraction of the population so important?<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Jews#Population_size" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Jews#Population_size</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom#Vital_statistics_(1900%E2%80%932022)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingd...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-in-the-united-states-nationally" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-in-th...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Since_1790" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...</a>