The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions

Evidence

Over the long years of the colonial era anti-semitism had seldom raised its head among the Muslim population, but soon after the revolt began the F.L.N. was applying the screw upon the Jewish community to force it to declare itself. As with the other uncommitted groupings, the Jews found themselves subjected to the persuasion of terrorism and economic sanctions. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1257 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

As for France, if at every hand in Algeria one could detect the roots, and pattern, of the war of 1954–62, so too in a similar fashion did the civil war between Algerians of the 1990s soon overflow across the Mediterranean. In 1995 and 1996 feuding between rival clans of the GIA brought terrorism to the Paris Metro, killing and wounding over eighty persons. Supposedly aimed at dissuading the French from backing the repression of the Algiers government, in what could have been a hideous preview of 9/11, an Air France plane hijacked, pointedly, on Christmas Eve, 1994, was evidently programmed to be flown suicidally into the Eiffel Tower. The problem of immigration became an ever hotter issue for any French government to handle, as carnage in Algeria—on top of overpopulation—persuaded increasing numbers of Algerians to seek refuge, and employment, in France. In the winter of 2005–6, outbursts of rage in the overcrowded banlieues, with their substandard housing, gave the lie to the Gaullist notion that, with the end of the war in 1962, France could wash its hands of the “Algerian Problem.” Now there are over five million of Algerian extraction living in France. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 46 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as double agents against France.; The F.L.N. pressured Algerian Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions to declare loyalty. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1257; Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 46 (+4 more)

Related

• The F.L.N. pressured Algerian Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions to declare loyalty. (similarity 0.91)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.87)
• Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as double agents against France. (similarity 0.87)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.86)
• Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as spies against French rule (similarity 0.85)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria expelled its century-old Jewish community despite their F.L.N. sympathies (similarity 0.84)
• Metropolitan terrorism alienated the French Left that supported Algerian independence (similarity 0.83)
• Pro-FLN Algerian Jews were expelled alongside the pieds noirs (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.83)
• The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s Jewish community was fatally divided and then wholly expelled regardless (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. shifted its terrorist focus to metropolitan France (similarity 0.81)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The F.L.N. pressured Algerian Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions to declare loyalty. #corroborates (0.95) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1257
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself #expands (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 46