{"id":18371,"date":"2025-06-03T14:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=18371"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:50:38","slug":"controversy-erupts-in-morocco-over-proposal-to-rename-streets-after-jewish-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2025\/06\/03\/controversy-erupts-in-morocco-over-proposal-to-rename-streets-after-jewish-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy Erupts in Morocco Over Proposal to Rename Streets After Jewish Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\"><em><strong>Watan<\/strong><\/em>-The controversy continues in Morocco after a local human rights organization requested the renaming of streets and cultural centers in Agadir after Moroccan Jewish figures, prompting fierce debate over identity, history, and normalization with Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\" data-start=\"1106\" data-end=\"1415\">In a letter seen by Al-Quds Al-Arabi, the Moroccan Institute for Human Rights appealed to Agadir Mayor Aziz Akhannouch\u2014who is also the Prime Minister\u2014to adopt names that \u201crestore the memory of Moroccan Jewish citizens, promote coexistence and pluralism, and reflect the city\u2019s diverse identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-9\" data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1655\">The proposal referenced the Moroccan Constitution, which recognizes Hebraic heritage as part of the national identity, noting the absence of Jewish Moroccan names in Agadir\u2019s public spaces as a cultural gap needing correction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-10\" data-start=\"1657\" data-end=\"1697\">However, backlash was swift and intense.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-11\" data-start=\"1704\" data-end=\"1750\">Public Figures and Activists Push Back<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-12\" data-start=\"1752\" data-end=\"2195\">Under the slogan \u201cAgadir is not for sale: No to erasing national memory in the name of Zionist pluralism,\u201d Adil Chikito, president of the Moroccan League for the Defense of Human Rights, slammed the proposal. He criticized the idea of replacing historic nationalist figures like Allal El Fassi and Abderrahim Bouabid\u2014symbols of Morocco\u2019s anti-colonial resistance\u2014with names of people \u201cunknown to 99% of Agadir residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-13\" data-start=\"2197\" data-end=\"2452\">He accused the head of the institute behind the proposal of being one of the most openly pro-Israel figures in Morocco, who has repeatedly visited Israel and appeared in photos \u201csmiling in Zionist institutions above the bodies of Palestinian victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-14\" data-start=\"2454\" data-end=\"2604\">Chikito warned that such efforts signal a deliberate agenda disguised as cultural dialogue and called for serious resistance to these changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-34\" data-start=\"2454\" data-end=\"2604\"><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fadiltchikitou%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02mCdCUqML2eXGXuQbsCnyPFjEEYLpDi2gzNbRdqrtabAPu5hnb6EtFKEnw7anRG4Ml&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"672\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\" data-start=\"2606\" data-end=\"2700\">Similarly, Jamal Al-Assri, secretary-general of the Unified Socialist Party, stated:\u201cThe Zionists in Morocco have accelerated\u2014from normalization to attempts to erase national memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-16\" data-start=\"2804\" data-end=\"3073\">He urged national resistance against the proposal and questioned the silence of the Istiqlal Party and the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, whose party founders are being replaced in the naming process, despite their long-standing opposition to normalization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-32\" data-start=\"3077\" data-end=\"3177\">\u201cThis is humiliation\u2014not only to the parties, but to the nation and its collective memory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ai-optimize-17\" data-start=\"3184\" data-end=\"3228\">Cultural and Social Rejection Widens<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-18\" data-start=\"3230\" data-end=\"3449\">Salima Belmokadem, head of the &#8220;Morocco Environment 2050&#8221; Movement, described the initiative as \u201can open call for Zionization\u201d and part of the dangerous \u201cblessings of normalization with neo-colonial forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-19\" data-start=\"3451\" data-end=\"3661\">Social media activists joined in, accusing the group of \u201cconfusing Morocco with Zionist settlements,\u201d and rejected the idea of replacing names of national heroes with figures lacking national resonance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-20\" data-start=\"3663\" data-end=\"3685\">The proposal included:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"3686\" data-end=\"4128\">\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-21\" data-start=\"3686\" data-end=\"3830\">\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-22\" data-start=\"3688\" data-end=\"3830\">Renaming Allal El Fassi Street in Bouargane to Simon Levy Street, honoring the late Jewish Moroccan anthropologist and activist.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-23\" data-start=\"3831\" data-end=\"3928\">\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-24\" data-start=\"3833\" data-end=\"3928\">Renaming Abderrahim Bouabid Street to Khalifa Ben Malka Street, a former local rabbi.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-25\" data-start=\"3929\" data-end=\"4037\">\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-26\" data-start=\"3931\" data-end=\"4037\">Naming Agadir\u2019s Reconstruction Museum after Orna Baiz, a Jewish survivor of the 1960 earthquake.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-optimize-27\" data-start=\"4038\" data-end=\"4128\">\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-28\" data-start=\"4040\" data-end=\"4128\">Naming the Dakhla Cultural Complex after Nita Elkayem, a Moroccan Jewish singer.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-33\"><iframe style=\"border: none; 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