Moroccan Supporters Forcibly Disrupted

in Jerusalem.

With Morocco’s victory in the World Cup quarterfinal match, the Israeli authorities crushed Palestinian celebrations in Jerusalem, beating and chasing people.

On Saturday, hundreds of Palestinian youngsters gathered in Jerusalem’s Bab Al-Amoud Square, one of the gates to Al-Aqsa Mosque, and other neighborhoods and streets. They raised Palestinian and Moroccan flags and chanted in celebration of Morocco’s triumph. The Israeli occupation forces surprised the celebrants and assaulted several of them, beating and abusing them and firing tear gas canisters. Some of them were injured as a result.

The event has infuriated Palestinians and damaged relations between Israelis and Palestinians. Human rights groups and the international community have also condemned it, with many calling for an impartial investigation into the events of that night.

Moroccan Team Raises the Palestine Flag at Every Win

The Moroccan team made a proud and unabashed display of their culture and heritage at this World Cup. They would reach out to their mothers on the field to celebrate their victories, they would express their gratefulness to Allah by putting their foreheads on the ground, and they will unfurl the flag of Palestine instead of their own nation’s in every team photo celebrating a win. These gestures captivated the World and made the viewers wonder about this flag and what it represents.

It was not the first time the Morocco Football team showed its support for Palestine during a world event. As the world tuned in to the World Cup in Russia four years ago, Morocco made its bold statement of solidarity then as well. During their match against Spain on June 25th, the Moroccan national team wore shirts featuring the Palestinian flag and their management promoted the hashtag #MoroccoWithPalestine on social media. Morocco has a long history of supporting Palestine, including recognizing Palestine as a sovereign state and calling for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Israeli embassy in Morocco called the move “unfortunate” and accused the team of using sports as a political platform. Other than that, the Moroccan team’s actions were met with praise from the Arab and African worlds.

The Moroccan team successfully captured the sentiment of the whole Muslim nation and they were not the only ones proudly supporting Palestine’s cause at this World Cup either.

Writing for the New York Times, Tariq Panja, an expert on the sports industry, recorded how Arab fans throughout the tournament waved the oppressed country’s flags, wore armbands in the flag colors, and adorned kaffiyehs in the flag print.

Moroccan team emerged as the major ambassador for the “33rd team at the World Cup’” in the words of one Moroccan team, since Morocco progressed the further and attracted lots of attention for their winning spirit and cultural celebrations. One fan wearing a Palestine flag draped across her Moroccan team jersey, said, “Palestine is our second country, is our topic, is our identity — like humanity, like Muslim people. They are suffering.”

Famous Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, uttered the above words in an interview by Israel’s Helit Yeshurun, published in the Journal of Palestine Studies (Vol. 42, 2012) by JSTOR.

All nations of this world including the Jewish diaspora deserve a home and have a right to create and maintain one. But how does a history of atrocities against one nation allow that nation to then become the aggressor and do what was done to them to other people?

This is the question the Palestine flags raised high by the Moroccans are asking.

The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network goes at length to clarify why Zionism is Racist. They also stress how protesting the Israeli apartheid of the Palestinian peoples is not anti-semitic, rather recognition and support for Palestine’s human rights.

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