Sion Assidon, defender of the Palestinian cause, 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 (Moroccans) are 88% unfavorable to normalization, to the major change in position of official Morocco which has just occurred and to the atmosphere of war in which the kingdom is settling”, he said in an interview with Israel News.
He wonders: “What new event has 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 installation is a war crime (one more)? Or that he renounced considering Jerusalem as the capital of the occupation? Would it have meant that there was talk of lifting the medieval siege of Gaza? “
The former secretary general of Transparency-Maroc noted that not only has nothing changed, but the violence against the Palestinian people continues to rise. A situation which leads him to declare that reaching out to the occupier in these circumstances is indeed a major rupture, a change of course for official Morocco without possible justification.
In the eyes of the defender of the Palestinian cause, the American recognition of the Moroccan character 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”. “This makes good sense, even the Secretary General of the United Nations felt compelled to point out. I repeat myself: what has changed is the position of official Morocco in relation to the cause of Palestine, “he adds.
Mr. Assidon also notes that the latest fashion is to justify “the ignominy of normalization by the historical links of Morocco with the settlers of Moroccan origin”. “It is a serious mistake which 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, we will not be able to confuse the consciousness of the great mass of Moroccans. “
