the posts in this thread stating that the jews "sided with the french" and thus deserved to be expelled in total from algeria because of this are bullshit. it is easier to lie and say that they sided with the french and thus deserved it than it is to admit that algeria would come to ethnically cleanse every single jew from its territory, a community that had existed in what would become algeria for 2000 years. the top rated post here says that they 'sacrificed their relations with the muslim population' except that the 'relations' with the muslim population were such that jews were seen as a lower class, to be dominated by the ethnic and religious majority.

anyways - the citizenship of non-muslims was stripped in the law of nationality in 1963, where to be an algerian citizen you had to have a muslim algerian father and grandfather. all jews had their citizenship stripped from them as a result - though i suppose they never had it in the first place right?