Academic anti-colonialism can distort Jewish history
A book on the Jews of Algeria ignores centuries of pre-colonial oppression.
Source: jns.org
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France's Latest Effort to Erase Colonial Crimes in Algeria
Share: A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others. Dear Benjamin Stora, In 2017, French President Emanuel Macron acknowledged that the colonization of Algeria was a crime against humanity. Along with many others, I was looking forward to reading your recently released report on the subject, which you wrote on commission from the president. Having read it, however, I am dismayed at the absence of discussion of imperial crimes—I fail to understand these omissions. Though there are many, I ...
Source: bostonreview.net