L’Arche, Dictionary of French Judaism, “North African”

Henri Chemouilli was an outspoken Jewish leader during the War of Algerian Independence, arguing that French Jews had colonized the Algerian Jewish community just as France had colonized the wider region. Nevertheless, believing that French rule protected the Algerian Jews, Chemouilli supported the Organisation armée secrète, a violently anti-independence group. In the years following the war, Chemouilli wrote extensively about Algerian Jewish life and history, making claims of Jewish indigeneity in the region.