The Moroccan ban on emigration of Jews from Morocco to Israel may result in the reappearance of anti Semitic action in the country, the French evening press predicted today in reporting the news of the Moroccan Government order dissolving the Kadimah, which directed the emigration of Jews.
The Paris newspapers pointed out that the Moroccan Government itself has been opposed to anti-Jewish outbreaks. The newspaper Le Monde says that Israel cannot remain indifferent to the Moroccan ban because it needs Jewish immigration. It also predicted that Israel will declare that the action violates the right of free movement of peoples and the promises made by the Moroccan Government to Jewish leaders during the last few months.
The victims of the ban, the Paris press says, will be primarily poor Jews who have not yet found a place in Moroccan society. There is speculation in Paris that the ban was issued under pressure from the Arab league countries which conduct anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda in Morocco and other Moslem countries in North Africa.
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