Sion Assidon

Articles

• Enrico Macias Defies Boycott Calls, Vows to Perform in Casablanca Concert
  2 February 2019, by Said

  The singer Enrico Macias will be present on February 14 next at the Megarama in Casablanca to give a concert, despite the calls for a boycott launched on social networks.
  Reacting to this call on the "Les Grandes Gueules" radio show on RMC, the Franco-Algerian singer says he will go despite these calls. "I couldn’t care less about this boycott threat because I’m going to go. I’m not giving them reason. My victory will be to go sing in Casablanca," the singer said, however omitting to give (…)

• Pro-Palestinian Groups Protest Enrico Macias Concert in Morocco Over Israel Ties
  14 February 2019, by Said

  The maintenance of the concert by the Franco-Algerian singer Enrico Macias in Casablanca is not to the liking of the Moroccan pro-Palestine organizations, who have just called for a demonstration in front of the venue where the concert is to be held this Thursday, February 14.
  The National Working Group for Palestine published a video on Tuesday in which it calls for mobilization against the singer accused of supporting the Israeli armed branch in charge of border surveillance. For these (…)

• Morocco Grapples with Israeli Date Sales During Ramadan Amid Boycott Calls
  8 May 2019, by Kamal

  Israeli dates are being marketed in Morocco during this holy month of Ramadan, despite the boycott call launched by several associations defending the Palestinian cause.
  According to Maghreb Intelligence, Israeli dates are still being sold on the Moroccan market, but with a taste of the forbidden. For merchants and consumers, they are a luxury product that is difficult to access and especially to market.
  In the chic neighborhoods of Casablanca, Israeli dates display prices out of reach (…)

• Poll: 88% of Moroccans Oppose Diplomatic Ties with Israel, BDS Activist Claims
  11 January 2021, by Sylvanus

  Sion Assidon, a defender of the Palestinian cause and founding member of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) Morocco movement, reacted to the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel.
  "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 (…)

• Morocco-Israel Ties Spark Protests as Activists Decry ’Military Alliance’
  8 April 2023, by Sylvanus

  Nearly three years later, many Moroccans continue to display their opposition to the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel. Sion Assidon, a human rights activist, believes that this rapprochement has become "a military alliance".
  "For years, we have been fighting against normalization, this normalization that has become a military alliance, and we say that it is impossible for the Moroccan people to accept that Morocco makes a military alliance with the (…)