Jewish students in Morocco were reported today to have been the recent victims of a new act of discrimination in a competition to send three students from Morocco to study electronics in France.
The contest was organized by an electrical energy unit on the basis that the three students with the highest grades would be sent to France. When the results showed that the top three contestants were all Jews, the initial promise was forgotten and three Moslem candidates, who ranked fourth, fifth and sixth in the competition, received the study trips instead.
The decision to ignore the three top winners because they were Jewish was reported to have followed publication of protests by Moroccan newspapers which charged that as soon as the three Jewish students finished their studies, they would go to Israel to stay. A typical Arab newspaper comment was that “Morocco must not prepare Israel’s technical experts.”
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