Something must be wrong with the French administration in Algiers if new anti-Semitic riots could break out there again.
With the anti-Jewish pogroms of last July still fresh in mind, the French administration in Algiers should have been more on the alert than to permit a renewal of rioting which lasted two full days. The events which have just taken place in Setif, where Jewish shops were looted and where native Algerian soldiers clashed with the police, show that the French High Commissioner in Algiers is not the best person to be entrusted with governing the territory.
After the anti-Jewish pogrom last July, Algerian Jewish leaders accused the French administration of negligence. The riots in Setif substantiate this accusation. It would be a natural move for the French government to change its administration in Algeria.
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