Nasser Hamdadush

Deputy in Algerian Parliament

Western voices have appeared admitting that planting the Zionist entity in Palestine  was an old colonial strategy and has been a part of attempting to solve the historical-western crisis with the Jews. It is basically western plotting with Nazism against the Jews. The project of establishing a national Jewish state was a way to relieve their consciences and overcome historical fights against them. Then, the Jewish crisis was exported to us so that we would carry this heavy burden and be punished for it while the west recites repentance prayers and offers sacrifices for forgiveness in order to rid itself and lands from the Jewish cancer: Unwanted human garbage. The plan was to geographically remove them into another place; the selected country was Palestine, as it is the closest to their religious legends.

The historical facts and geographical dimensions reject this foreign body inside the Ummah. It requires, then, huge efforts to normalize its presence through making real changes. It started with Camp David Accords signed with Egypt in 1978 all the way to the confession of Netanyahu, whose name suggests something smelly in Arabic, a couple of days ago when he said that ‘Israel’ had established secret relations with multiple Arab and Muslim countries, and that only 3 counties have not yet accepted to. He also mentioned that his entity only releases 10% of the actual relations that exist between them and Arab countries.

Normalization is treason. Netanyahu’s smell is awful. This is a stab in the back of the holy, creed-based cause. It, however, slowly sneaks to harm the public awareness hence the great epidemic spreading in the body of this Ummah. The normalization train has been running fast ignoring the historical and religious positions of its countries, and hanging to the economy and security aspirations, and replacing the Zionist enemy with Iran. It is a new equation and hideous dimensions in interwined relations where principles fall in the face of personal interests.

To what extent could this storm of normalization hit Algeria? What are the historical dimensions that function as immunity for the Algerians against it?

We still need the rich recipe of examining the historical origins of the so-called Jews of Algeria, and presentation of accurate understanding of their dangerous roles, their cursed relation to the Zionist entity, and the poison resulting from normalizing with them. This is especially after history has been changing and becoming on their side, and their wish of a Jewish state and alleged peace.

Not so long ago, the pieds-noir (black feet) have re-proposed the issue of identity in France in hope for return to Algeria. The Zionist entity has also sought normalizing with us and asking for compensations. The devils of normalization, never asleep, have not stopped their desperate attempts to break down the Algerian immunity against the Zionist expansion and addiction to working with the enemy; and to put an end to complete boycott of the Zionist enemy.

The most recent shock that hit the Algerian people was the normalization that sneaked through the back door of sports. Mustapha Berraf, President of the Algerian Olympic Committee, stood up in respect to the Zionist ‘anthem’ during the international championship of Judo in Paris (8-9 February, 2020).

Such historical fact cannot hide the bright moments across time reflected in the coexistence between the Muslims and Jews under the umbrella of the Muslim civilization for centuries. The Jews had enjoyed their full religious and civil rights under the Islamic Caliphate. They are the ones called ‘Ahl Al-Kitab’ (People of the Book) and included in this verse, “(60:8) Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes – from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly” (Al Mumtahanah: 08).

The problem with the Jews of Algeria is not linked to their Judaism as a religion. It is connected to their dishonorable positions against the country, which had contained them since their fled from the hell of extreme Christianity in Al-Andalus after the fall of Granada in 1492, and fear from the inspection courts of Spain. These had sought refuge in the heaven of Muslim civilization in north Africa. 

These facts about them and the incidents that influenced the history of Algeria were the results of continuous treason, consecutive stabs, and disloyalty. These together have formed eternal hatred that was gradually built in the Algerian psychology, and social and cultural subconscious. There are six key issues related to the Algerians’ exceptional resistance to normalization. They are:

First: The Jews of Algeria were a main reason that led to the occupation of Algeria in 1830. The families of Bakri and Bushnaq were of the most prominent Jewish families at the time. They had powerful political status and classy economic position; through which they controlled foreign trade – more specifically trade in wheat which represented the greatest rate of exports to France. They were involved in creating famine and debts crisis which caused the occupation of Algeria.

Second: History has not witnessed the Jews’ resistance to the occupation. In fact, they worked as spies, traitors and translators to the French army which made the French government grant them collective nationality in accordance with Crémieux Decree on October 24, 1870. This Decree stated that the Jews of Algeria, about 37,000 in total, were then French citizens. That meant their voluntary abandonment of their Algerian nationality and acceptance of the French one, and therefore their enjoyment of full political and civil rights as French. This is of course after betraying their religious courts and accepting to serve in the French occupation’s army.

Third: They betrayed the liberation revolution in 1954 and worked for France through several organizations including the secret OAS. The Jews replied to the First of November statement, ‘We are French. We are republicans. We are liberals’. This treason cannot be erased by the lapse of time, disregarding the nationality or religion of its doer. In doing so, they are not different from other harki Algerians (the generic term for native Muslim Algerians who served as auxiliaries in the French Army during the Algerian War of Independence from 1954 to 1962).

Fourth: The creed of the Algerian country towards the Palestinian cause and other just causes worldwide is based on its own experience in resisting the occupation, and its jihad for liberation from any racist settlement; especially this cancerous entity that had directly collaborated with the French occupation. Shimon Peres confessed this through experimenting the Zionist nuclear bomb and developing Jericho rockets in the Algerian desert.

Fifth: Their collective departure from Algeria along with the French immediately after independence reflected their stance clearly; especially that the Évian Accords signed in March 1962 did not force them to. Back then, about 130,000 Jews left. Most of them went to France, and about 10% to the occupied Palestine. They were basically afraid of being avenged from due to their treason to the Algerians and the liberation revolution. Willingly, their home became a total different place.

Sixth: The historical and religious relation between Palestine is solid. Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa is one of the religious basics before being a political constant. The holiness of the cause is strong in the collective Algerian consciousness: From the joint liberation of Al-Quds by Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi in 1187 to the declaration of a Palestinian State in Algeria in October 1988. The attempts to distort this memory will only fail. 

The long relation, historical chemistry and creed-based connection made any form of normalization an unforgivable treason whose shame will never be erased no matter how much time passes.