Crowning the trajectory of unified and joint action of the Moroccan organizations that support the Palestinian cause and which resist all forms of normalization with the usurping Zionist entity, has taken the form of shared initiatives and joint struggles, and was intensified during the year 2017 on the occasion of the centenary of British Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour’s issuing of a letter in which he promised the Zionist movement the establishment of a state for them on Palestinian land. 2017 was the year when the Moroccan organizations supporting the struggle of the Palestinian people, under the umbrella of the Moroccan Coalition for Palestine and against Normalization, organized several intellectual and protest activities that it concluded with the delivery of a letter addressed to the British government through its embassy in Rabat, reminding it of the historical crime its state committed against the Palestinian people by enabling Zionist gangs brought from different parts of the world to settle on land to which they have no rightful claim.
Subsequently, joint and coordinated actions took other forms on several occasions in response to developments in the Palestinian cause until regimes in the Arab and Maghrebi region started revealing their relations with the Zionist entity. The announcement by the Moroccan state of normalization of its relations with the Zionist entity on December 10, 2020 and officially and publicly opening the door for the Zionist movement and its intelligence services and agents to increase its infiltration of Moroccan society under various pretexts, such as supporting the poor and needy sections of society, promoting tolerance, disseminating knowledge of the history of Moroccan Jews, and inviting and hosting Zionist criminals in our country, is a clear process of Zionizing the deliberately ambiguous concept of the Hebrew component in the 2011 Constitution.
What is being promoted and disclosed is only to cover up the true and long-term objectives that aim to entrench the Zionist project and pave the way for further integration of our country into the military plans of American imperialism and its Zionist creation, both in the Middle East and Africa ...
Considering the dangerous decision taken by the Moroccan regime, coinciding with several Zionist decisions, including the enactment of a new law that considers the annexation of more [Palestinian] lands as a constitutional duty, with the acceleration of ethnic cleansing policies in Jerusalem (“Judaization of Jerusalem”), and with the worsening circumstances for Palestinian refugees, the siege of Gaza intensifies and its populations are starved while the crimes of killing Palestinians continue and the number of Palestinian prisoners increases by thousands of prisoners who are sentenced to life or to long periods of imprisonment. All of this is endorsed and supported by American imperialism, which has moved its embassy to occupied Jerusalem.
Aware of the genuine threat normalization poses to Moroccan society as a whole, with its destructive goals aimed at society and the collective memory of Moroccans by distorting facts, falsifying history, and practicing brainwashing in an attempt to make the Moroccan people overlook historical truths and the crimes against humanity committed by the gangs and the army of the Zionist movement against the daughters and sons of the Palestinian people and their land.
Evoking the serious challenges and responsibilities that devolve on the shoulders of the active forces in our country and all activists, men and women, who support the Palestinian cause to immunize society from attempts to Zionize it and to contribute to making it capable of confronting and resisting all forms of normalization with the Zionist entity, inspired by the heroic and honorable history of the Moroccan people, the sacrifices of its martyrs, and the vigilance of its elites and forces supporting the Palestinian cause in resisting all aggressions against Palestine;
And conscious that Zionism is a racist, colonial, aggressive, and terrorist movement that threatens peace and security in the region and the entire world, and that its project is fundamentally contrary to all human principles and values, especially the fundamental universal principles and values of human rights that affirm the right of peoples to self-determination and the legitimate right to resist colonialism by all means not prohibited by international law, including armed resistance. Affirming also that this Zionist entity, despite the crimes of genocide and apartheid and all the other crimes that it has committed and still commits against the Palestinian people and all the peoples of the region, which are classified according to international standards as war crimes and crimes against humanity, it has remained beyond any accountability or punishment. This debunks the negligence of the international community, led by the United Nations and the permanent members of the Security Council;
Believing that united struggle is an inevitable option for the peoples of the Maghreb and Arab region, and for all freedom-loving supporters around the world to support the Palestinian people in their confrontation with this enemy;
And appreciating the accumulated unified struggle of the active forces in our country in their support for the Palestinian cause and their resistance to all forms of normalization with the Zionist entity;
The founding general assembly of the Moroccan Front for the Support of Palestine and against Normalization was held in Rabat on Sunday, February 28, 2021. This Font aims to contribute to the unification of the efforts of the active forces that support the Palestinian people to match the challenge of this stage in order to create a balance of power that will force the state to reverse its decision to normalize relations with the Zionist entity, protect society from Zionist infiltration, and restore the Palestinian cause to its rightful place among the priorities and in the programs of Moroccan political, trade union, human rights, student, youth, women's, educational, cultural, and artistic organizations...
The Front, while proud of the success of its founding general assembly and commending the high level of awareness and responsibility that prevailed during its proceedings, affirms the following:
1. Affirms its support for all forms of Palestinian struggle, endorsing all united initiatives, steps, and decisions of the resistance factions in whatever way that strengthens the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and achieves democracy within it, and reaffirming its status as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in their struggle to defeat the occupation and establish a democratic Palestinian state on the entire national territory of Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital.
2. Reaffirms its condemnation of the disgraceful agreement by the Moroccan state to normalize relations with the Zionist entity, demanding its cancellation and the annulment of all agreements and normalization decisions, both current and future, that resulted from it.
3. Expresses its discontent with the inaction of the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial), which have abdicated their prerogatives and authority in confronting the Makhzan state's decision on normalization.
4. Calls on all organizations, be they political, trade unions, human rights, women's, youth, educational, and professional, supporting the Palestinian cause to join the Front to expand, unify, and strengthen the effort until the defeat of the normalization project.
5. Promise to the masses of our people to work diligently, with unbreakable high morale and resolution, to support the Palestinian people's struggle until their full rights are restored, and to move forward to overthrow the treasonous normalization agreement with the Zionist enemy and enact a law that criminalizes all forms of normalization. The Front calls on the Moroccan people and their active forces to remain vigilant against all attempts of misinformation and obscuration which aim at erasing the principled and honorable positions of the Moroccan people in its historic solidarity and support for the Palestinian cause.
List of Founding Organizations:
1. Unified Socialist Party
2. Political Circle of Justice and Spirituality Association
3. Democratic Socialist Vanguard Party
4. Democratic Path Party
5. National Federal Congress Party
6. Democratic Confederation of Labor
7. National Federation of Education-Democratic Approach
8. Moroccan Association for Human Rights
9. Moroccan League for Human Rights Defense
10. BDS Movement Morocco
11. Moroccan Coalition of Human Rights Organizations
12. Moroccan Committee for Supporting the Ummah’s Causes
13. Solidarity Committee with the Palestinian People in Casablanca
14. Moroccan Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
15. Moroccan Democratic Network for Solidarity with Peoples.
The general assembly agreed to name this framework “The Moroccan Front for the Support of Palestine and Against Normalization.”
A national secretariat composed of 17 members was elected as follows:
§ Tayyib Mdmad: Coordinator of the Front's Secretariat
§ Abdel-Samad Fathi and Sion Assidon: Deputy Coordinators
§ Mohamed Al-Ghafari: Secretary
§ Mohamed El Ouafi: Deputy Secretary
§ Mohamed Tazi: Treasurer
§ Khadija Mmad: Deputy Treasurer
§ Bahija Lioubi
§ Jamal Al-Asri
§ Mohamed Boubker
§ Abu Al-Chita Masaaf
§ Mouad Al-Jahri
§ Abdellilah Ben Abdelsalam
§ Salima Al-Manjim
§ Adel Tchikito
§ Abdelhamid Amine
§ Al-Saadiya Walous
Rabat, Sunday, February 28, 2021
Translated from Arabic by Aomar Boum