of senators not appearing on the list of any group (RASNAG). During the 2022 French presidential election, Benbassa gave her sponsorship to Hélène Thouy. Workplace bullying allegations In July 2021, online newspaper Mediapart published an investigation detailing allegations of coercion and humiliation from Benbassa's parliamentary staff and former students. The accusations included the senator pressuring an assistant to delay a surgical operation by several months, repeatedly threatening her staff and harshly attacking their actions and competence. All accusers described an atmosphere of "terror" Benbassa had created among her subordinates. Mediapart also reported high turnover in her office, with over 18 parliamentary assistants having been employed over two terms. Benbassa disputed the version of events published by the newspaper, but nonetheless acknowledged her "mood swings" and apologized to "those that [she had] hurt." In September 2021, Benbassa was expelled from the Senate EELV group, with the latter explaining that "Mrs. Benbassa has not disputed some of the witnesses' accounts and has not, to this day, attempted to sue the accusers for defamation." The senator responded in a press release denouncing the "sham of internal procedures" that made a "farce of due process." She then left EELV that December. Personal life Benbassa is married to Jean-Christophe Attias, who serves as the director of studies at the Practical School of High Studies and won the 2015 Goncourt Prize in Biography. Attias is also her occasional co-author. Benbassa identifies as an atheist. Awards and honours Knight of the National Order of Merit, 2005 Seligmann Prize Against Racism, Injustice and Intolerance, 2008 Guizot Prize bronze medal by the French Academy for La Souffrance comme identité, 2011 Senator of the Year for 2017 by Le Trombinoscope, 2018 Works In English Haim Nahum. A Sephardic Rabbi in Politics, 1892-1923, Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama Press, 1995. A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe. The Autobiography and Journal of Gabriel Arié, 1863-1939, Seattle & London, University of Washington Press, 1998 (with Aron Rodrigue). History of Sephardic Jewry, XIVth-XXth Centuries, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000 (with A. Rodrigue). The Jews of France. A History from Antiquity to the Present, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999, 2nd ed. (softcover), 2001. Israël, the Impossible Land, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003 (with Jean-Christophe Attias). The Jews and their Future. A Conversation on Jewish Identities, London, Zed Books, 2004 (with J.-C. Attias). The Jew and the Other, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2004 (with J.-C.