The perils of being a Jew abroad!
The perilous state of being Jewish
abroad was laid bare last week when Israeli surfers asked the World
Surf League to remove their nationality and
flag against their names at the recent Qualifying event in
Morocco.
country of birth for fear of reprisals
Moroccans, as the worldly among us
already know, have a comprehensive history of slaying the infidel,
both at home and overseas. Moroccans, particularly
from the diaspora in Europe have starred in major attacks, usually
as part of al-Qaeda or ISIS network.
A non-exhaustive list of attacks by Islamists in Morocco might
include the 2003 Casablanca bombings when a group of suicide
bombers from the city’s slums hit five locations in the pretty
city, including a Jewish community centre. The attacks killed 45
people and injured over 100.
Four years later, a suicide bomber detonated at an
internet café, killing himself and injuring others. Four weeks
later, three bombers blew themselves up near the U.S. Consulate and
a cultural center, with one civilian casualty. Four days after
that, two suicide bombers detonated near a police station,
injuring one officer.
All that splatter for nothing!
In 2011, a bomb exploded at the Argana Café in Jemaa
el-Fna square, which is a real popular tourist spot in Marrakech,
killing 17 people (including 10 foreigners) and injuring over
20.
In 2018, two Scandinavian backpackers were murdered, beheaded if
you wanna to be precise, in the Atlas Mountains. The murderers
posted a video of the beheadings online.
Abroad! Very busy!
Moroccans were over represented in the Islamist cell that killed
191 people and injured over 1800 in the Madrid bombings of
2004.
The coordinated attacks in Paris in 2015, which killed 130
people and injured hundreds more was the plan of the Moroccan-born
Abdelhamid Abaaoud,
The following year, Moroccans hit Brussels Airport and a
Brussels metro station, killing 32 and injuring over 300.
In 2017, a cell of Moroccan-origin youths from Ripoll, Spain,
were behind the van attack in Barcelona’s Las Ramblas killing 13
and injured over 100. A few hours after knocking over pedestrians
in Barcelona, another terrorist drove through a crowd in Cambrils,
one hundred clicks away, killing one.
That same year a Moroccan went wild with a knife in Finland,
killing two and injuring eight.
So you can understand why someone like the two-time Olympian
from Tel Aviv might want to fly under the radar in Morocco. Reminds
me a little of 1999 when Australia led a peace-keeping force in
East Timor, which drove the Indonesians, who weren’t real happy
East Timor voted to secede, absolutely nuts.
Walking through Padang in Sumatra, you’d be stopped and asked
what your nationality was. We had taxi doors pulled open by angry
locals. Where you from! Where you from!
American, bro!
The Israeli flags have since been reinstated as the tour moves
to non-Islamic nations, including Tahiti, Peru, Australia, Brazil,
Barbados and South Africa.
