Poll: 88% of Moroccans Oppose Diplomatic Ties with Israel, BDS Activist Claims

"A recent poll indicated that they (the Moroccans) are 88% opposed to normalization, to the major change in the official Moroccan position that has just occurred and to the atmosphere of war in which the kingdom is settling," he said in an interview with Actualité Israël.

He wonders: "What new event would have occurred that justifies reaching out to the occupier? Would he have announced that he plans to evacuate the territories occupied in 1967, the Syrian Golan Heights, the West Bank with its 700,000 settlers whose settlement is a (yet another) war crime? Or that he was renouncing considering Jerusalem as the capital of the occupation? Would he have indicated that it was a question of lifting the medieval siege of Gaza?"

The former secretary general of Transparency-Maroc pointed out that not only has nothing changed, but the violence against the Palestinian people continues to rise. A situation that leads him to declare that reaching out to the occupier in these circumstances is indeed a major break, a change of course of the official Morocco without any possible justification.

In the eyes of the defender of the Palestinian cause, the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara is "a non-event", because "the international legal status of the Sahara has not changed, from the point of view of the United Nations." "I repeat myself: what has changed is the official Moroccan position with regard to the Palestinian cause," he adds.

Mr. Assidon also notes that the latest fashion is to justify "the ignominy of normalization by the historical ties of Morocco with the settlers of Moroccan origin." "This is a serious mistake that encourages racism by confusing Judaism and Zionism," he insists, convinced that "one can hide the truth from a few for a long time. But in the medium and long term, one will not be able to blur the conscience of the great mass of Moroccans."