Thread by @mishtal

The BBC recently apologised after turning the Holocaust into one of many “holocausts.”

This thread examines another case of Jewish history being rewritten by @bbcnews.
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The BBC published a podcast about Jewish life in Morocco. Centuries of persecution were reframed as harmony. Conditions approaching slavery were recast as a “model” of Muslim-Jewish coexistence. This is a classic anti-Zionist fiction.

I’ve been there, following my wife’s Moroccan heritage. No one can see the erased communities, hidden cemeteries, unmarked buildings and armed protection of Jewish sites and honestly call this a model of coexistence. This is Pravda-level propaganda.

The podcast argues that Jews and Muslims lived in harmony, presenting Morocco as a “model” of coexistence - effectively blaming Israel for all the problems.

What follows is the real record.

We can begin 236 years ago, in 1790.

A British newspaper, citing accounts from Gibraltar, recorded that Jews “in every part of the Empire” were “most inhumanly plundered,” with many leading Jewish merchants “assassinated in a very barbarous manner.”

1809: a British consul described a society in which Jews were heavily taxed, socially degraded, and subject to legal restrictions and ritualised humiliation. He records that Jews in Morocco were treated “somewhat worse than dogs in Christian countries:”

1830s: Sol Hachuel was a young Jewish woman from Tangier. Accused of converting to Islam and renouncing it, she denied converting and refused demands to accept Islam. She was imprisoned and executed in Fez in 1834. Jews at the time were described as "political slaves".

1858: the Herald (Glasgow) published a “harrowing picture” of Jewish life in Morocco. The article states that Jews were regarded by Muslims as unclean animals, and enemies of god. It describes them as bearing the condition and appearance of slaves:

1864: a relief campaign was launched by Sir Moses Montefiore. A British newspaper stated that there could be “no doubt that the Jews of Morocco have been most barbarously treated by the masters of that land.” Montefiore received promises that Jews would be protected:

1868: It appears that the decree did little to alter conditions on the ground. The Times published correspondence from Tangier describing a religious fanatic in Tetuan who had assassinated several Jews and appeared to have devoted himself to their destruction:

1888: A report on the state of Morocco's Jews leaves no doubt about the Jews being “despised” and “subjected to every imaginable degradation”. The report states a local Muslim can “think no more of killing a Jew, if he can do it quietly, than of killing a rat”:

1894: A description of pogroms taking place at various sites that appear to be in the Atlas mountains around Marrakech:

1912: another pogrom. The sacking of the Jewish Quarter of Fez. 100 dead, 10,000 homeless and the entire Jewish Quarter in Fez had been destroyed:

1927: the “oppression, torture and humiliation” continued in the 1920s. Alongside this, there is no remedy in the courts and their savings stolen at any time:

1948: as the Arab armies tried to destroy the newly declared State of Israel, local Muslims in Morocco continued a well-worn pattern of murdering their Jewish neighbours. Initial reports on Pogroms in Oujda and Djerada tallied 42 Jews murdered.

1960s: The departure of Moroccan Jews was a consequence of hundreds of years of documented persecution. Once they had somewhere to go the end was inevitable. Morocco tried banning them from leaving, but eventually opened the gates. A coexistence that never was.

The BBC called this a "model" of coexistence. It inverts truth - transforming a record of subjugation into a story of harmony, and erasing Jewish suffering in the process.

That is not public service broadcasting. It is the rewriting of history. The BBC has to take it down.

The full story is here. Jewish life in Morocco was not a story of coexistence, but of survival under Islamic supremacy and subjugation. When Moroccan Jews finally had somewhere to go, they left. david-collier.com/the-bbc-rewrit…

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