Georges Bensoussan

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Georges Bensoussan
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Born17 February 1952
French Morocco
NationalityFrench
OccupationHistorian

Georges Bensoussan (born 17 February 1952) is a French historian. [1] Bensoussan was born in Morocco. [2] He is the editor of the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah ("Shoah History Review"). [3] He won the Memory of the Shoah Prize from the Jacob Buchman Foundation in 2008. [4]

His Jews in Arab Countries: The Great Uprooting (originally published in French in 2012 as Juifs en pays arabes), published in translation in 2019, is considered a definitive history of Jewish communities in the Arab world. [2]

On October 10, 2015, while on a radio program, he paraphrased Smaïn Laacher, a Muslim, Algerian professor of sociology at the Université de Strasbourg, by saying: "in French Arab families, babies suckle anti-Semitism with their mother’s milk;" [2] [3] [5] in fact, in a lengthy discussion of Muslim antisemitism, Laacher had used the phrase: "It is like in the air we breathe". [6] In response to these remarks, the Collective Against Islamophobia in France and the International League Against Racism and Antisemitism initiated criminal proceedings against him for allegedly inciting racial hatred. [7] In January 2017, he was acquitted of these charges, a verdict that was upheld on appeal in March 2018 and in September 2019 by the Court of Cassation. [6] [8]

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