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This report provides an overview of May1942 on the political activity of elected Muslim officials, reformist ulama, the Algerian People’s Party, etc. We can also read there 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 report notes the elimination of Jewish lawyers, Jewish doctors from the medical profession, and the appointment of administrators to Jewish property.

Muslims were treated mainly by Jewish doctors. Christian doctors showed reluctance to treat the natives, either because of difficulty in making themselves understood or out of mistrust about their bodily cleanliness. Jewish doctors were the only ones practicing in the Kasbah. Indigenous people wanted to petition the government to allow Jewish doctors to continue to practice at least inside the Kasbah and until the end of the typhus epidemic. They finally gave up on these petitions for fear that they would pass for acts of indiscipline.

Several formulas are cited dealing with the doctrines of anti-Jewish racism and the link between Muslims and Jews who are Semitic peoples.

Racism is criticized many times by Muslim notabilities.