Morocco still in an uproar over Haredi Jews praying in public ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, April 24, 2026

Morocco still in an uproar over Haredi Jews praying in public

I wrote yesterday about the Moroccan reaction to a group of religious Jewish tourists in Morocco who made an ad-hoc minyan to pray before it got dark. I noted that the print media was overwhelmingly supportive of the Jews and against those who criticized them.

Morocco's media is aligned with the government and the kingdom has been more tolerant and celebratory of its Jews than any other Arab nation, by far.

But the people is another story. And they are literally going crazy over this incident.

People on social media asked "Jews performing religious rituals in Bab Doukkala, Marrakech. Do they want to rule us?"

Several insisted that the Jews wanted to turn this wall into a new Western Wall.

Someone wrote graffiti on the wall, "Bab Doukkala is for Moroccans and not for the Jews."

A former actor who turned Islamist wrote on his Facebook page that because the Jews defiled it, the entire wall must be demolished and rebuilt to cleanse it from being a place that Jews prayed.

A large group of Moroccan youth didn't go quite that far but they did symbolically cleanse the wall of the filth of the Jewish presence there.

A huge protest was held in front of the wall. Really.

One sign said, "No to provoking the feelings of Muslims."

One crazed man screamed in front of workers sandblasting the graffiti about how terrible this incident was, and they even made a large banner declaring "We don't fear zionism." This video was widely shared.