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Moroccan Radio Pays Warm Tribute to Jews; Avoids Anti-jewish Broadcasts

April 27, 1961
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The Moroccan National Radio today broadcast a program paying warm tribute to the Jews of Fez, the country’s religious capital, for the manner in which they acclaimed the visit to that city of King Hassan. The monarch returned today from a visit to Fez.

At the same time, it became known, the Government radio, which is now avoiding the broadcast of anti-Semitic sentiments, refused to broadcast a communique from a group of Moroccan Jews who oppose the formation of a Council of Jewish Communities in this country. Those opposed to the establishment of the Council are being termed “assimilationist” by the Council proponents.

The showing of a film on an episode in the Sinai campaign of 1956 in a movie theatre here, resulted in a number of shouts of anti-Jewish remarks during the performance today. The shouts, however, did not result in any violent incidents among the Moslem patrons of the theatre.

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