Pic shows: Benbassa has in the meantime, defended herself on social media, saying over the course of numerous tweets that she is not antisemitic, and that as a "Jew" herself, she has "spent her life writing the history of her people." She also said: "That our stigmatised contemporaries identify with these past sufferings is quite understandable. Nobody steals their suffering here from anyone else." These images of Muslims protesting against Islamophobia in Paris and wearing stars reminiscent of those that Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis have caused outrage on social media and in the French press.