Colonial racism led some humiliated Jews to identify with their humiliators against Algerians

Evidence

Finally, colonial Algeria being an eminently racist country, the different mechanisms of racist psychology are to be found there. Thus the Jew, despised and excluded by the European, is quite happy on certain occasions to identify himself with those who humiliate him to humiliate the Algerian in turn. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 501

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Fanon’s account of the psychological mechanisms of colonial racism in Black Skin, White Masks, where the colonized subject turns the received contempt downward. — connects to: Racist colonial hierarchy led some Jews to humiliate Algerians to gain standing.; Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim; Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 517 (+2 more)
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 501

Broader Connections