Algeria’s Jewish community was fatally divided and then wholly expelled regardless

Evidence

The menace was thinly veiled, with pressures leading to uncharacteristic divisions among the Jewish community. Members of the intelligentsia and of the left-wing parties joined forces with the F.L.N., while the commercial bourgeoisie either strove for neutrality or supported Algérie française. Even families were tragically riven; in the Lévy family of Algiers, the father would later be assassinated by the O.A.S. as a F.L.N. sympathiser, while his son was killed by the F.L.N. on suspicion of belonging to the O.A.S. Thus there was never any such thing as a united front, or collective policy, established by the Jews of Algeria; nevertheless, when the day of reckoning came, they were all to be lumped into the same boat — a boat that was never to return to Algeria. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1262

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier narrative of Algeria’s plural European-Jewish settler community and to the mass exodus of pieds noirs as the war ended. — connects to: Algeria expelled its century-old Jewish community despite their F.L.N. sympathies; Pro-FLN Algerian Jews were expelled alongside the pieds noirs; Algerian Jews were caught between European and Muslim worlds (+8 more)

Related

• Algeria expelled its century-old Jewish community despite their F.L.N. sympathies (similarity 0.96)
• Pro-FLN Algerian Jews were expelled alongside the pieds noirs (similarity 0.93)
• Algerian Jews were caught between European and Muslim worlds (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian Jews publicly repudiated French nationality to join the independence struggle (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems (similarity 0.82)
• Three-quarters of Algerian Jews were Arabized natives who considered themselves Algerians (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as double agents against France. (similarity 0.82)
• The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as spies against French rule (similarity 0.81)
• German expulsions were Allied-sanctioned while Algerian exodus came from decolonization war (similarity 0.80)
• De Gaulle’s 1960 tour divided Algeria’s European and Muslim communities openly (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian hierarchy ranked contempt downward from French to Arab (similarity 0.79)
• The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war (similarity 0.78)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 517
• The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions #corroborates (0.60)
• Algerian Jews publicly repudiated French nationality to join the independence struggle #contradicts (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 519
• De Gaulle’s 1960 tour divided Algeria’s European and Muslim communities openly #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1299
• Muslim rioters attacked Algeria’s Jewish community during the 1960 demonstrations #corroborates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1311
• Racist colonial hierarchy led some Jews to humiliate Algerians to gain standing. #corroborates (0.50)
• Algerian hierarchy ranked contempt downward from French to Arab #corroborates (0.45) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 171