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This report provides an overview of June 1941 on the political activity of elected Muslim officials, reformist ulama, the Algerian People’s Party, etc. We can also read the information on the youth of the Algerian Muslim Congress, the action of the European parties on the Natives, the native workers, the economic question, etc.

The law of June 2, 1941, replaced that of October 3, 1940. It prohibited Jews not only from public functions, journalism, theater, cinema, radio but also a whole series of speculative businesses (bankers, real estate agents brokers …) and it establishes a numerus clausus in the liberal professions (2% for lawyers and doctors).

A decree of June 1, 1941, refused all possession of weapons to the Jews.

These new arrangements are welcomed by Muslims, who have no sympathy for the Jews. However, a number of intellectuals including Sheikh El Okbi are wary of racist doctrines.

Jews are prosecuted for anti-national words or gestures. Some Jewish leaders of Algiers would consider giving their co-religionists the slogan to gradually cease all commercial activity.

At the end of the month, the outbreak of war between Russia and Germany was greeted enthusiastically by the Jews, as an omen of defeat. This attitude is sanctioned by the forced residence of several Jewish traders previously prosecuted for illegal speculation. Mr. Bernard Lecache, ex-president of the International League against Antisemitism (LICA), previously in forced residence in Teniet-el Haâd, is interned in Bossuet.