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Is there anti-Semitic voices in Morocco?

Recently a debate about anti-Semitism and the difference between anti-Semitism and Zionism appeared in Morocco. The observers of the Moroccan political life noticed that in most activities organized to support the Iraqi and Palestinian peoples, there is two different voices:
The first voice is the one of the current Moroccan Islamic movement shouting slogans as "khiber, khiber, oh Jews, the Mohomed army will return back” (khiber is a Jewish city in Saudi Arabia completely destroyed by the soldiers of Allah in the time of the Prophet) or "Shame, Shame, Shame, Advisor is Jewish."
The second voice is the one of the current Pan-Arab Moroccan movement shouting slogans like "Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame, advisor is a Zionist" and "Oh, leave Morocco Advisor", referring to the Jewish Royal Advisor Mr Andre Azoulay.

The difference between the two voices is the term used ‘Jew’ or ‘Zionist’. Regarding the Islamic voice, most observers consider that it’s an anti-Semitic voice, but the Islamists themselves have their own religious argument which says that the Jews were a chosen people, but the curse of God wanted their dispersion across the world except in Palestine, and their attempt to return is a pure sin. We must protect the Holy Land "Al Quds" of the Jewish impurity. The Shariaa law, reserves a pure distinction between Jew and Muslim. It reserves for the Jew a special status called Dhemmi.

For the pan-Arab movement voice, it is subject to variation between observers. There are those who believe that it's an anti-Semitic voice: They start from the fact that the ancestors of André Azoulay are not invaders, but ingenious people since 30 centuries, some even call them Amazighs converted to Judaism 30 centuries ago, arguing by the foundation of Amazigh kingdom with Jewish confession and rolled by the Queen called Tihiyya, Adding to this: Azoulay's name itself is an Amazigh/Berber name which means “the one with the blue eyes”, he himself was born in Essaouira, his parents buried in Essaouira, he has a Moroccan nationality, he is with Palestinian side in the Arab-Israeli conflict. And despite all this, his taxation as Zionist, is a pure Anti-Semitism.

In the other side, other observers believe that it's an anti-sioniste voice: justifying Azoulay Zionism with the fact that he is a supporter of peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict, he also is for normalization with Israel or with Zionist state as called by the pan-Arabs. Because for them -as recently published by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights AMDH in a statement released- "Anyone who has or wants to try or think about normalization with the Zionist state on the tourism, cultural, intellectual or economic field is a Zionist"

But opponents believe the opposite: intrigued by the fact that Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain and Mauritania – which have Israeli flags floating over their capitals - are not considered by the same reasoning, as Zionists states, and therefore boycotted them and their films, their conferences and congresses, it is a work of pure and clear political agenda. If these countries were not Arabs, they would be taxed by Zionism! And this is pure anti-Semitism. They add another argument, why the human rights defenders supported the Sahrawi activist Aminatou Haidhar, in the conflict opposing her to the Moroccan Authorities even though she has rejected the Moroccan nationality and she denied what the Moroccans call "the sacred national pillars"? in another hand they protested against Andre Azoulay, and asked him even openly and publicly to get out of Morocco, although he has never denied any of "sacred national Pillars". Even his love to his country ‘Morocco’ is obvious to everyone. The only difference between the two persons is, -these observers noticed- that Aminatou haider is Arab and Azoulay is Jewish. Is not this a pure anti-Semitism?.
In the same context, Andre Azoulay, declared to a newspaper that: he is considered in Morocco as a Zionist and a Palestinian in Israel, it means someone of nowhere; this shows clearly the effect this can have on his life, His fundamental right has been violated: They asked him to leave the country as if he is the Dhemmi? Is he really Dhemmi? . Isn’t that a pure anti-Semitism?
All these slogans spread silently: the Moroccan authorities’ silence, Moroccan Jews silence and the intelligentsias’ silence… until a Moroccan Jew brought to justice an association of human rights. Thing, according to observers, should be done by Azoulay, because he is the one who is the most concerned before any other Moroccan Jew.
Far from all these small details, putting things in the right context and generally outside of any ideology, in your opinion: is these voices, Moroccan Pan-Arabs and Islamists, are anti-Semitic? Anti-Zionists? or neither one nor the other? or are they free voices? Express yourself ..

In Morocco, 20 years later, is the Amazigh issue still a national responsibility?

20 years after its formal establishment in 1991 by publishing the Agadir Charter till now ,in Morocco the Amazigh cultural movement ACM in Morocco has developed an mobilizing speech for each decade. It began with "unity in diversity" from 1991 to 2001 to protect against attacks by supporters of the official discourse which claims "unity of the great Arab indivisible nation: one Arab people, one Arabic language, one Muslim religion”. From 2001 to 2010, a part of the ACM Amazigh cultural movement has launched a new discourse -that another ACM stream considers only as easing pill- which is "the Amazigh issue is a national responsibility" nobody has the right, therefore neither to speak on behalf of Amazigh people nor to politicize it. It is simply "the duty of the whole Moroccan nation". This speech appeared for two reasons: first, Amazigh voices will argue that Morocco has been separated from its Amazigh identity by a political force in power, the repair can only be done by another political force in power, the second is the intervention of the official Moroccan state who says that Amazigh issue will never be politicized. It will therefore be a case of the whole nation, the state has even forced in Ajdir (historialcal site, which marked a reconciliation between the power and the Amazigh in the past), one by one all political party leaders -who said 24 hours before the Amazigh is a set of dialects- that becomes a national language. But 10 years later, the speech “Amazigh is national responsibility” began to indication:

Failure of the teaching of Amazigh in public schools, which should have reached the Baccalaureate by 2008 in all public schools. Today in 2010, there is no widespread teaching at no level and it doesn’teven go beyond the primary level in pilot schools.
Continuation of the ban on Amazigh names in Morocco and in Algeria, which shows that this is not the civil state employee that prohibit amazigh names but certainly the Arab League.
Imams under the Minister of Islamic Affairs of the state who discredited Amazigh people as citizens. On Friday, October 16, 2009, coinciding with the memorandum of creation of the Royal Institute for Amazigh Culture, an Imam of the mosque Shouhada (martyrs) in Kenitra Quarter "Sinyak" in his Friday sermon warns against the Amazigh "believers goats. On July 5, 2010 another Imam of the Al Mouhssinine the capital Rabat, Yacoub Al Mansour neighborhood, warns the faithful, this time not of the Amazigh, but the Amazigh language and culture itself ,he has named it "Al Barbariyya = wild in Arabic language" by linking it to Zionism and said that it is the Zionist circles who pull the strings of the Amazigh issue in Morocco. That means in the media jihadis call for jihad against the infidels. In both cases no judicial proceedings has been made from the state that is supposed to defend the dignity and security of its citizens rather than national organizations.
On Saturday, May 29, 2010 in Tripoli, Libya a delegation of 100 people formed political parties and organizations of human rights of all persuasions, was invited to a speech by General XLIX Qadhafi where he criticized the virulent and even Amazighiteism and prompted the Moroccan government to close the only radio and TV broadcasting in this language dangerous Amazigh, who will divide his "Arab world". But before this insult to a country, a civilization and a people no one in the delegation reacted to national cause, which they should havedone for the following reasons:

a national culture is humiliated by a stranger always hostile to the nation
they have no right to approve a call to genocide launched against their own people, especially in a national political representation
this delegation is born out of the “National” movement which once called Allah in the mosques not to not separate “them Arabs "of their Berber brothers, who gave their life in the armed resistance. Today this delegation of nationalist descendants should have called Allah in the tent of Qaddafi like their parents did, or completely leave the meeting since they are in power.

Leaving that aside, and making your own analysis, in your opinion, Morocco, 20 years after the official birth of the claims of cultural rights and identity of Amazigh is that the Amazigh issue is always a national responsibility?

Yes, Amazigh issuue is still a national responsibility
No, Amazigh issue is no longer a national responsibility
Non, Amazigh issue has never been a national responsibility
I dont now

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The Moroccan nationalist movement seen by Moroccan

The Moroccan nationalist movement has marked the Moroccan’s history for over 50 years since the French colonialism period to the present. It gave birth to all Moroccan’s political parties authorized till nowadays. That’s why all these parties, without exception, have essentially the same basis ideology which is the Arabo-Islamism. They differ only on the formal role in political life reserved to each one: the right or the left side. Now, you as Moroccan or from Morocco, 50 years later, what really represents for you the Moroccan nationalist movement?

The Moroccan nationalist movement is the Moroccan independence symbol
The Moroccan nationalist movement is the founder of the Moroccan national identity
The Moroccan nationalist movement is the national face of French colonialism
The Moroccan nationalist movement is other thing
I do not know

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By what means a man or a woman acquires the identity of a citizen in a country

Worldwide, there are countries where the citizen‘s identity is defined as the land where he lives permanently sustainable, final and irrevocable and not by ethnicity or race, such as France, for example the French President Sarkozy said he and French identity was taken as war-horse of his election campaign without ever being ethnically-French origin, the United States of America is merely a set of different ethnic races but even American identity. By cons in other countries it connects the identity to a race / ethnicity, such as countries in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya ...) where the Arab identity is as a component of the population define ethnically Arab origin. In other countries, as the country converted to Islam but not Arabic, despite their different ethnic origin, they linked identity to religion and they talk of a Muslim identity. In other countries, Other political trends especially in the country to Islam but not Arabic, despite their different ethnic identity is linked to religion and there is talk of a Muslim identity. In your opinion by what means a man or a woman acquires the identity of a citizen in a given country:

The identity of a citizen is acquired by his origin ethnic group
The identity of a citizen is acquired by his current religion
The identity of a citizen is acquired by his original religion
The identity of a citizen is acquired through the land where he lives forever
I do not know

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