Soustelle’s appointment was followed by long and heated discussion in the Assembly, accompanied by a vituperative whispering campaign — emanating from Algiers — in which it was suggested that he was, inter alia, a Soviet agent, a Jew like Mendès-France and his real name was “Ben-Soussan”.

QUESTION: The anti-Semitic framing suggests deeper racial/colonial tensions in the Algerian crisis era worth investigating.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 339