Editing Zeev Sternhell (section)

===Defamation trial===
Sternhell was taken to court by [[Bertrand de Jouvenel]], in 1983, after Sternhell in his work ''[[Neither Right nor Left]]'' (''Ni droite, ni gauche'') described him as having been a fascist in the 1930s.  Jouvenel—on whose behalf [[Raymond Aron]] testified, the only intellectual on the anti-totalitarian left to defend his past<ref>Iain Stewart,[https://books.google.com/books?id=uYK0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA241 ''Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Age of Extremes,''] [[Cambridge University Press]] 2019 {{isbn|978-1-108-48444-2}} p.241.</ref><ref>Dennis Hale, Marc Landy (eds.,) [https://books.google.com/books?id=TY2f4uOmMZUC&pg=PA33 ''Bertrand De Jouvenel:The Nature of Politics, Selected Essays,''] [[Transaction Publishers]], 1992  {{ISBN|978-1-412-83794-1}} p.33.
</ref>—sued him on nine counts of [[defamation]].  The judge, finding Sternhell liable on two counts, made him make amends with a fine that was more symbolic than punitive, and took care to allow Sternhell to retain the offending passages in future editions of his book, which Robert Wohl states was a 'major defeat' for the plaintiff.<ref>Robert Wohl, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2938528  'French Fascism, Both Right and Left: Reflections on the Sternhell Controversy,']. [[The Journal of Modern History]], Vol. 63, No. 1, (1991), pp.91–98, p.91.</ref>