Fanon asserted that Jews were not categorically aligned with colonialism
Evidence
It is well for the French to know these things; as for the French authorities, they are well aware of them. It is well for the Jews to know them too, for it is not true that the Jew is in favor of colonialism and that the Algerian people reject him and relegate him to the camp of the oppressors. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 509
Categorization
- XREF: Directly answers a prevailing trope about Algerian Jews as colonial loyalists; relevant to post-1962 debates over the exodus of Algerian Jews. — connects to: Racist colonial hierarchy led some Jews to humiliate Algerians to gain standing.; Fanon finds solidarity with Jews through shared racialized suffering; Neocon Zionism stems from imperial politics, not Jewish ethnic identity. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 387 (+2 more)
Related
- Fanon finds solidarity with Jews through shared racialized suffering (similarity 0.90)
- Colonial racism led some humiliated Jews to identify with their humiliators against Algerians (similarity 0.85)
- Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems (similarity 0.85)
- Algerian Jews were caught between European and Muslim worlds (similarity 0.84)
- Racist colonial hierarchy led some Jews to humiliate Algerians to gain standing. (similarity 0.84)
- Three-quarters of Algerian Jews were Arabized natives who considered themselves Algerians (similarity 0.83)
- Algerian Jews publicly repudiated French nationality to join the independence struggle (similarity 0.81)
- Algeria expelled its century-old Jewish community despite their F.L.N. sympathies (similarity 0.79)
- Jewish identity does not automatically produce hard-right Likud-style politics. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Jewish identity does not automatically produce hard-right Likud-style politics.
#corroborates(0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 386 - Neocon Zionism stems from imperial politics, not Jewish ethnic identity.
#corroborates(0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 387 - Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems
#complicates(0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 517