Georges Bensoussan (born 17 February 1952) is a French historian.

[3] He won the Memory of the Shoah Prize from the Jacob Buchman Foundation in 2008.

[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.