The Algerian Jewish Committee for Social Studies, leading central organization of the Jewish community in Algiers, has notified Algerian authorities of anti-Jewish outbreaks and threats of anti-Semitism, and has requested government action to suppress such outbreaks, it was reported here today.
The latest issue of “Information Juive”–only Jewish newspaper currently published in North Africa–which was received here today, indicates that French paratroopers and Moslems have joined in anti-Semitic actions in Algiers in recent months. The newspaper reports that, in one instance, French paratroopers threatened Jews in Constantine when a Moslem there had accused a Jew of “insulting” General Charles de Gaulle and France. The paratroopers, in retaliation, forced Jewish women into the streets, and made them wash the streets.
The “Information Juive” reports also other cases of Jews being insulted and of Jews coming to blows with French troops. One French officer is said to have said openly that if Pierre Mendes-France should ever come to power in France, “Arabs of Algeria would become slaves of the Jews.”
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