In an attempt to explain the continuous Western support for Israel in the extermination and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, Moroccan historian Mohamed Jabroun returns to the history of the formation of the “Zionist solution” and European support for it, describing it as “exporting Europe’s problems with its Jews to Palestine.” This was stated in the latest episode of “Memoirs in Thought and History,” where Jabroun explained the encouragement by European countries to establish a state exclusively for Jews away from Europe as a result of “European persecution of Jews and the attempt to resolve the conflict and European (Christian) intolerance towards Jews by exporting it outside Europe, with Palestine as the victim, disregarding the Palestinian people living on their land.” After recalling multiple examples of European persecution of Jews within their own countries, from Eastern Europe to Russia and Western Europe, the historian questioned “the joining of many Arab Jews, or those who lived with Muslims in countries like Palestine, Iraq, and Morocco, despite not having European problems.” Jabroun estimates that “by creating the Zionist movement, the West invented a major problem and a humanitarian dilemma that the world still suffers from today, which is the Palestinian issue, not only an Arab and Muslim problem but a global one that requires a solution.” Among the references was Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s book on artificial intelligence transformations, which explained “how the Zionist myth and narrative were created, especially what was brewing in Tsarist Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and what Eastern European Jews suffered, including massacres, especially under the Orthodox Russian Tsarist Empire, which occurred shortly after the Zionist movement was founded.” Among what these events produced was the journalist and poet of “Zionist nationalism,” Bialik, the Ukrainian-Russian, who “encouraged Jews to this day to take up arms to defend themselves amid a hostile climate against them.” “This poet, along with the spiritual father of the Zionist movement Theodore Herzl, was considered the soul of the movement; through them, Jews were attracted to the national homeland in Palestine, mainly with British support and other European countries at the time, before the United States became the world’s leading power and the primary supporter of the continued occupation of Palestine,” according to the same source.

Jabroun also cited the story of “the grandfather of historian Yuval Noah Harari in Romania, who found himself after World War II threatened with losing his Romanian citizenship after the rise of extremist fascists who counted and recounted Jews and decided to get rid of many by demanding proof of citizenship.” Historian Mohamed Jabroun, who signed a statement gathering prominent Moroccan intellectuals calling for Moroccan and humanitarian solidarity to stop the extermination and starvation of Palestinians by Israel, America, and other European countries, previously told Hespress: “What is happening in Gaza is beyond what we can even watch; it surpasses all description or language capacity, and humanity has never experienced atrocities worse than what it is living today.

What is happening condemns humanity in all its colors and beliefs and condemns us who have witnessed this reality.” The historian added: “Unfortunately, this even undermines religions, such as Judaism; I am sure that at its core it can only be against these actions and atrocities, but what is happening in its name and what we see now undermines even its status as a divine religion (…) What is happening is shocking, and we are drowning and powerless to act, and we have nothing; what we have signed are words of testimony against us and not for us. I am frustrated by these things, and there is no victor except God.”