Algerian Jews publicly repudiated French nationality to join the independence struggle

Evidence

It is time, today, that we should return to the Algerian community. Attachment to an artificial French nationality is a snare and a delusion at a moment when the young and powerful modern Algerian nation is rapidly taking shape… . Jews have joined the ranks of the Algerians fighting for national independence… . Some have paid with their lives, others have bravely borne the foulest police brutalities, and many are today behind the doors of prisons and the gates of concentration camps. We also know that in the common fight Moslems and Jews have discovered themselves to be racial brothers, and that they feel a deep and lasting attachment to the Algerian fatherland. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 519

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the typical narrative about Jewish-settler relations; contrasts with the later mass exodus of Algerian Jews to France after independence. — connects to: Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as double agents against France.; Pro-FLN Algerian Jews were expelled alongside the pieds noirs; Refusing Muslims entry to French nationhood would drive them to build their own nation (+6 more)

Related

• Pro-FLN Algerian Jews were expelled alongside the pieds noirs (similarity 0.89)
• Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as spies against French rule (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as double agents against France. (similarity 0.86)
• Three-quarters of Algerian Jews were Arabized natives who considered themselves Algerians (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria expelled its century-old Jewish community despite their F.L.N. sympathies (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s Jewish community was fatally divided and then wholly expelled regardless (similarity 0.83)
• Fanon asserted that Jews were not categorically aligned with colonialism (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N. pressured Algerian Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions to declare loyalty. (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian Jews were caught between European and Muslim worlds (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s Europeans grew conscious of Algerian nationality during the Revolution (similarity 0.80)
• European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause (similarity 0.79)
• Fanon finds solidarity with Jews through shared racialized suffering (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as spies against French rule #expands (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 431
• The F.L.N. pressured Algerian Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions to declare loyalty. #contradicts (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1257
• The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions #contradicts (0.65)
• French colonialism denied that Europeans could genuinely support Algerian independence #expands (0.50)