{"id":133895,"date":"2026-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/archives\/133895"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"mass-protests-in-morocco-denounce-normalization-with-occupation-and-affirm-support-for-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/archives\/133895","title":{"rendered":"Mass Protests in Morocco Denounce Normalization with Occupation and Affirm Support for Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;;color:#EE0000\">Mass Protests in<br \/>\nMorocco Denounce Normalization with Occupation and Affirm Support for Palestine<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\">Hundreds of citizens took part on<br \/>\nWednesday in a protest in the city of Marrakesh in northern Morocco, in support<br \/>\nof Palestine and in rejection of normalization with the occupation<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:\n20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\">The demonstration was called for<br \/>\nby the \u201cMoroccan Front for the Support of Palestine and Against Normalization\u201d<br \/>\n(a non-governmental organization), where participants expressed their rejection<br \/>\nof what they described as \u201cprovocative and normalization practices<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:\n20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\">Protesters chanted slogans<br \/>\ncondemning the occupation, including: \u201cOh Zionist, you coward, the prisoner<br \/>\nshall not be humiliated,\u201d and \u201cThe people want the fall of normalization.\u201d They<br \/>\nalso held banners calling for an end to normalization with the occupation,<br \/>\nincluding: \u201cNo to settling Zionists in the country<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:\n115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\">The protest coincided with social<br \/>\nmedia activists circulating images of a group of Haredi Jews performing<br \/>\nreligious rituals near the historic Bab Doukkala gate in central Marrakesh,<br \/>\nwithout any official comment from the authorities<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:\n115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\">In December 2020, Morocco and the<br \/>\noccupation resumed diplomatic relations under U.S. mediation, a step that was<br \/>\nmet with rejection from segments of the public and political forces within the<br \/>\nkingdom. This was followed by visits by officials from the occupation to Rabat,<br \/>\nbefore they were halted with the start of the war of extermination on Gaza<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:\n20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\">Since October 8, 2023, the<br \/>\noccupation has been waging a war of genocide on the Gaza Strip with U.S.<br \/>\nsupport, resulting in more than 72,000 Palestinian martyrs and over 172,000<br \/>\nwounded, most of them children and women, in addition to widespread destruction<br \/>\naffecting around 90% of the civilian infrastructure in the enclave<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:\n20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\">(Source: Anadolu Agency)<\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:\n1.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;;color:#EE0000\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\n6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:\n20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:\n&quot;Traditional 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(<span style=\"color:#C00000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/ar\/ContentDetails.aspx?ID=41459\" target=\"_blank\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/b><span dir=\"LTR\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Traditional Arabic&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass Protests in Morocco Denounce Normalization with Occupation and Affirm Support for 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