The Anti-Semitic Roots of France’s Middle East Policy, and Its Indifference to Crimes against Its Jewish Citizens

On November 17, the English writer David Pryce-Jones died at the age of eighty-nine. A fierce opponent of Communism, anti-Semitism, and Islamism, Pryce-Jones was prolific in his interests, acquired vast knowledge of the subjects on which he wrote, and had great skill in the deployment of language. He was descended from well-to-do Welshmen on his father’s side, but was a Jew on account of his mother, whose immediate roots lay in Austria and France. You can read a fine obituary of Pryce-Jones in the New York Times, but I recommend above all this article he wrote for Mosaic in 2017 about the American military’s treatment of North African Jewry during World War II—a subject that lies at the intersection of several of his areas of expertise. You can read his other contributions to Mosaic here.