December 1960’s riots shattered three founding myths of French Algeria

Evidence

Sixty miles away in Tizi-Ouzou, the capital of Kabylia, de Gaulle was again risking his life by walking into the middle of a Muslim crowd. “A Franco-Algerian fraternity will take shape once the blood has stopped flowing…,” he told them. But the blood flowing in Algiers was to mark the beginning of true civil war, and the end of any Gaullist dream of a multi-racial “Algérie algérienne, associated with France”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1312 (#expands, via linked claim)

On the 12th the F.L.N.-impelled mobs extended the scope of their operations to sack the Great Synagogue in the heart of the Casbah which had been built during the reign of Napoleon III and was one of the most important houses of Jewish worship in Algeria. The beautiful building was gutted, the Torah scrolls ripped and desecrated, the walls inscribed with swastikas and slogans of “Death to the Jews”. Several Jewish officials were kidnapped and assassinated in a series of acts of violence which fell on the Jewish community like a thunderbolt. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1311 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: After December 1960 the army, not the pieds noirs, drove events in Algeria; Muslim rioters attacked Algeria’s Jewish community during the 1960 demonstrations — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1311; The December 1960 riots ended de Gaulle’s multiracial Algeria vision — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1312 (+3 more)

Related

• The December 1960 riots ended de Gaulle’s multiracial Algeria vision (similarity 0.92)
• December 1960’s violence destroyed de Gaulle’s multi-racial Algérie algérienne vision (similarity 0.90)
• December 1960’s Muslim demonstrations decisively turned the Algerian war (similarity 0.87)
• Muslim rioters attacked Algeria’s Jewish community during the 1960 demonstrations (similarity 0.85)
• After December 1960 the army, not the pieds noirs, drove events in Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• F.L.N. mobs directed December 1960 violence against Algiers’ Jewish community. (similarity 0.84)
• By late 1960 both Muslim and European Algerians had lost faith in de Gaulle (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle’s 1960 tour divided Algeria’s European and Muslim communities openly (similarity 0.83)
• December’s lesson reshaped de Gaulle’s subsequent Algeria policy (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N.’s planned December demonstration exploded far beyond organizers’ expectations. (similarity 0.80)
• The barricades insurrection proved the decisive failure of the Algérie française cause. (similarity 0.79)
• The failed December 1960 coup irrevocably committed part of the French army to revolt (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The December 1960 riots ended de Gaulle’s multiracial Algeria vision #expands (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1312
• December 1960’s Muslim demonstrations decisively turned the Algerian war #expands (0.75)
• Muslim rioters attacked Algeria’s Jewish community during the 1960 demonstrations #complicates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1311
• The Barricades affair marked the defeat of French Algeria policy #responds-to (0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1142