The charge that European anti-Jewish agitators have been responsible for stirring Moslems to disorders was made by Dr. Salah Bendjelloul, the political leader of the Algerian Arabs, in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“We have, however, awakened to the true facts,” he said, “and the Europeans are wasting their breath in calling on us to massacre the Jews.”
He laid the responsibility for the Constantine disorders of 1934 entirely upon European agitators who, he declared, never ceased to stir up hatred against the Jews at meetings and in their newspapers.
Relations between Jew and Moslem, he said, were cordial despite the recent lynching in Bon-Saada of a Jew accused of murdering a Moslem. The Moslems, he said, were intent on maintaining friendship with the Jews despite the agitation of Hitler agents.
Dr. Bendjelloul added that leaders of the Mohammedan population were constantly appealing to their co-religionists to observe order and not to lend their ears to the anti-Semitic agitators who sought to arouse them to violence against the Jews.
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