Whether the Ligue admitted Jews is a live dispute dividing French from foreign historians

Evidence

Ingram even claims that in 1940, a small minority of local Ligue branches told Gestapo interrogators that they did not admit Jews—though the evidence is tricky to read, since those branches that did own up to having Jewish members were potentially putting them in great danger. As Ingram notes, antisemitism is thus the key thread in this debate, which has tended to pit French historians, often connected to the Ligue itself, against historians based outside France, particularly in Canada and Israel. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1341

Categorization

• XREF: The asymmetry of risk in admitting Jewish members to Gestapo interrogators connects to the reputational/informational signaling problems in the diamond-trade and trust literature — disclosure carries differential stakes depending on what the answer might reveal.