Complex Compatriots: Jews in Post-Vichy Algeria

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Complex Compatriots: Jews in Post-Vichy Algeria

A lecture by Sung Choi, UCLA
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Weathering the sustained anti-Semitism in French Algeria and later the persecution of the Vichy government (1940-1942), the Jews of Algeria remained committed to their French belonging throughout the Algerian War. During the war, secular Jewish organizations worked hard on the ground to rejuvenate interest in Judaism in Algeria, with the financial help from the World Jewish Congress. The French consciousness among Jews at this time was therefore superposed with a newfound awareness about a globally shared Jewish fate and history. My talk explores the evolution in Jewish identities after Vichy and their relations with the FLN, OAS, the WJC, and the Israeli government all of whom approached the community with ideas that each believed would be the most effective in acquiring Jewish endorsement. Jews during the Algerian War as they integrated a Jewish heritage, a global and historical consciousness, and memories of Vichy into an imbricated French identity towards the end of the Algerian War.

BIO:

Sung Choi holds a Ph.D. in History from UCLA. Was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nantes and is currently a visiting lecturer in History and a visiting scholar at the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, 2011-2012.  Her current book project is titled Bringing the Settler Colony Home: The French from Algeria and Decolonization.

http://www.international.ucla.edu/media ... hz-ddp.mp3

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Jews were not colonisers in Algeria  
The campus at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

With thanks: Silke; Eliyahu

A PhD history laureate named Sung Choi gave a lecture earlier this month at UCLA on the Jews of Algeria in the run-up to Algerian independence.

One wonders why she came to this subject in the first place: I suspect it was to prove that Jews were collaborators with the settler-coloniser French, who conquered Algeria in 1830. Her original intention had been to demonstrate Jewish participation in the right-wing pied noir pro-French OAS movement, until her research showed the Jews were also courted by the pro-independence FLN.

The Jews do not fit the fashionable paradigm of colonisers versus colonised. Miss Choi seems to have discovered quite recently - from her    friend Susan - that Jews had been in Algeria since Roman times (in fact, as early as 600 BCE). What she hasn't grasped is that the Jews were indigenous, preceding the Arab Muslims in Algeria by several hundred years. As a 'Europeanist', Miss Choi betrays her ignorance of Jewish history when she says 'quite a lot of Berbers and Arabs were converts to Judaism'. Berbers may well have converted to Judaism at first, but the overwhelming majority of Jewish and Christian Berbers would have in turn been converted to Islam; and no Arabs converted to Judaism - on the contrary, thousands of Jews were lost to Islam.

She describes how these Jews clung to the French citizenship granted to them by the 1870 Cremieux Decree. She correctly identifies the trauma of being stripped of their French citizenship by the Vichy regime during WW2.

But missing from her analysis is the main reason why the Jews of Algeria held on to their French citizenship: it was not just a matter of acculturation - ceasing to speak or dress like Arabs. Citizenship allowed them to escape centuries of dhimmitude, in which Jews were humiliated as inferiors by the local Muslims.

The word 'dhimmi' does not so much as escape Miss Choi's lips. She doesn't seem to grasp that the Jews are the 'colonised' of the 'colonised' Muslims.

Moreover, it is not true to suggest that French citizenship was only offered to Jews. As late as 1865, it was also offered to the Muslims of Algeria. The latter refused it because it would mean submitting to French civil law.

Miss Choi does not effectively convey the soul-searching that went on in the Jewish community before 1870 : the rabbis lobbied against French citizenship, fearing inevitable assimilation and weakening of religious and cultural ties (this actually came to pass). At first only 5 percent of the Jews welcomed citizenship. The Decret Cremieux was eventually imposed on the community, mainly for domestic electoral reasons.

Of course, acquiring French citizenship exposed the Jews to antisemitic hostility from the pieds noirs on the one hand, and resentment from the Algerian Muslims on the other, who suddenly had fewer rights and lower status. The antisemitism culminated in the wartime statut de Vichy. French citizenship was only restored in 1943, a year after the Allies had liberated North Africa, because the Allies had wished to appease the Vichy officers who still ran the Algerian army.

Sung Choi does not give her audience much of an inkling of the dilemmas facing Algerian Jews with the outbreak of the Algerian war in the 1950s. The community tried to maintain neutrality between the OAS and the FLN, but what Miss Choi euphemistically calls 'hostilities' forced the Jews to throw in their lot with the pieds noirs. With their French citizenship restored, it was obvious that efforts to coax the Algerian Jews to Israel would fail. But some 14,000 Algerian Jews, out of 160,000 did flee to Israel.

The trouble with academics nowadays is that they try to fit their conclusions into preconceived notions: one of the most pernicious is that Jews were accomplices of European colonialism. In order to convince, they have to leave out half the story: the historic oppression of the Jewish natives by Arab Muslims.  

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2012 ... geria.html

Introduction

In just 50 years, almost a million Jews, whose communities stretch back up to 3,000 years, have been 'ethnically cleansed' from 10 Arab countries. These refugees outnumber the Palestinian refugees two to one, but their narrative has all but been ignored. Unlike Palestinian refugees, they fled not war, but systematic persecution. Seen in this light, Israel, where some 50 percent of the Jewish population descend from these refugees and are now full citizens, is the legitimate expression of the self-determination of an oppressed indigenous, Middle Eastern people.
This website is dedicated to preserving the memory of the near-extinct Jewish communities, which can never return to what and where they once were - even if they wanted to. It will attempt to pass on the stories of the Jewish refugees and their current struggle for recognition and restitution. Awareness of the injustice done to these Jews can only advance the cause of peace and reconciliation.
(Iran: once an ally of Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran is now an implacable enemy and numbers of Iranian Jews have fallen drastically from 80,000 to 20,000 since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Their plight - and that of all other communities threatened by Islamism - does therefore fall within the scope of this blog.)

 

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Décret Crémieux - Algerian Jews granted French Citizenship in 1870

Postby CrackSmokeRepublican » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:27 pm
Décret Crémieux - Algerian Jews granted French Citizenship in 1870
Sunday, 29 August 2010 13:58

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While the CSR believes Asher Ginsburg wrote the Protocols

Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsberg) - Writer of the Protocols

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Décret Crémieux is also believe to be a candidate for them:
CRÉMIEUX, ISAAC ADOLPHE (1796–1880), French lawyer and statesman

The Jewish War Against "The Nations" (Goyim) - America
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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
By Victor E. Marsden

With the fall of Napoleon III, Adolphe Cremieux once more took an open part in politics. Pushing to the front his former secretary, Gambetta, he directed through him the negotiations with Bismarck. Bismarck himself was guided by the Jew Bamberger (1832-1899), a former revolutionary of '48, but who had for years managed the Paris branch of the Jewish bank Bischofsheim & Gold-schmidt; he was also a friend of Cremieux. A third Jew in the negotiations was the son of James Rothschild.20 In this way, care was taken that the treaty should be satisfactory, if not entirely to the signatories, yet at least so to the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
From then (1871) until his death in 1880, as President of the Alliance Israelite Universelle and Supreme Master of the Scottish Rite, Cremieux was one of the promoters of the anti-clerical movement following the Franco-Prussian war. His favourite theme was that there should be one cult: speaking at a general assembly of the Alliance he said: " The Alliance is not limited to our cult; it voices its appeal to all cults and wants to penetrate in all religions, as it has penetrated into all countries. Let us endeavour boldly to bring about the union of all cults under one flag of " Union and Progress ": such is the motto of humanity."21
One cult, one flag. Are the Protocols of Nilus, or the words of Machiavelli in Joly's book or in Venedey's book, anything but an elaborate exposition of the ideas thus briefly expressed by Cremieux? His activities are one of the best examples of Jewish internationalism. Thus the principal attempt to discredit the Protocols leads directly into historical studies which substantiate and illustrate their doctrine in a remarkable and unexpected manner.

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Carolyn Yeager covered this topic in depth:

http://thewhitenetwork.com/data/audio/t ... 121103.mp3

Worth a listen, IMHO.

Should we accept the truth of the Protocols of Zion?
Published on November 3, 2012   by Carolyn in Saturday Afternoon with Carolyn Yeager

Oct. 3, 2012

Carolyn wades into the controversy that so many want to bury once and for all — whether the Protocols of the Elders of Zion should be taken seriously or thrown into the trashcan of literary forgeries.

A search through the Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieufor the alleged parallel passages found in the Protocols leaves much to be desired;
    Only the first two of the three similar passages shown on Wikipedia can be found;
    The narrative of  how the forgery occurred published in The Times is not believable (kind of like the narrative of the 'Holocaust');
    More believable is the story of Mlle. Glinka and Alexis Sukhotin, and the Jewish traitor Joseph Schorst;
    The relationship between Maurice Joly (author of "Dialogue") and Adolphe Cremieux (Grand Master of the Mizraim Lodge and a founder of the Alliance Israelite Universelle);
    The Berne, Switzerland trial as a typical legal travesty that Jews always resort to;
    Layers of disinformation and confusion make the trail to the truth about the Protocols difficult, but investigation should be undertaken;
    Fear of Jewish retribution is a big reason Whites stay away from the topic, or are satisfied with a non-committal stand.

Image: The original article "exposing the forgery" in The Times of London from August 1921.