Moroccans upset at Holocaust memorial in their country (UPDATED)

JPost reported last week:

In a first for North Africa, German nonprofit organization Pixelhelper is building a Holocaust memorial and education center in Morocco.

The monument is situated some 26 km. southeast of Marrakech on the road to the Ouarzazate Film Studios in the little town of Ait Faska, a n area that attracts thousands of tourists.

PixelHelper founder Oliver Bienkowski told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that the only other Holocaust memorial on the African continent is in South Africa.

“Between our place and this, there is no [other] remembrance to the Holocaust,” Bienkowski said.

So of course Muslims are protesting. 

The news of the project has sparked a wave of public and official anger and sharp criticism of the authorities in the media and a number of interested and anti-normalization jurists.

Ahmed Ihaman, head of the Observatory of Morocco the anti-normalization, said the construction of a memorial to the Holocaust monument Holocaust in Marrakech, Morocco is a Zionist breakthrough, expressing his strong condemnation of the Zionist penetration, which reached unprecedented levels with Morocco 

 Two Moroccan human rights activists called on the government on Sunday to clarify the alleged intention of a German organization to build a Holocaust memorial and educational center near the central city of Marrakech.

On Facebook, human rights activist Hamid El Wali urged the Moroccan government to show the truth in light of media reports of a Holocaust memorial.

Because obviously commemorating the Holocaust is something only "Zionists" do.

The Masarabia article quoted above describes the Holocaust this way:

The Holocaust is a term used to describe the campaigns of the Nazi German government and some of its allies to ethnically liquidate Jews in Europe during World War II (1939-1945), according to the Israeli occupying power, which subsequently received substantial compensation from European countries for this.

To Arabs, the Holocaust is an Israeli "narrative," not a fact.


UPDATE: Moroccan authorities demolished the memorial, and the person interviewed here has to be seen to be believed:

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