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Leftist Europe's Support for Colonial Wars and Its Impact on Contemporary Tensions
Leftist Europeans in the 50s and 60s supported European colonial wars in the global south. The French alliance with Israel was influenced by their fight against the Arab liberation movement in Algeria. The tensions between Muslims and Jews in France today stem from the civil conflict in Algeria. As colonialism became seen as a great national sin, it took on a similar status as race does in the minds of progressive Americans.