Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
Morocco has just lost one after two of "his" Jews most emblematic. The writer Edmond Amran El Maleh died on November 15 to 93 years. The opposition leader Abraham Serfaty has joined three days later at the age of 84. Much closer the two men, but their eulogy did not have the same scope.
If all the kingdom's official media have rushed to the funeral Amran El Maleh, the state has done more than the discrete Serfaty case: no royal message of condolence, no representative of the palace, just a terse dispatch MAP announcing the sad news. It is no secret, Amran El Maleh as Serfaty were Jews, communists and anti-tripper. But the Moroccan state, which separated them was stronger than what united them.
Because, you see, Serfaty has dared to speak out for self-determination for the Saharawi people. And the crime of lese majesty has earned him to be imprisoned 17 years in the jails of Hassan II, then being sent to Brazil in a sort of masquerade legal to deprive him of his Moroccan nationality. For the state, Serfaty is a bit bad Jew, one we would very private person who may not even Morocco.
A Serfaty is therefore preferred the no less honorable Amran El Maleh, who chose to break with his first love policies, to pursue his passion, beautiful letters. Profile more consensual: a champion of rally across cultures against a follower of the great evening. And we have always preferred the Moroccans in the pantheon of artists, as martyrs six feet underground. Except that Serfaty, precisely, was more a martyr.
Greeted with great pomp on the edge for years Mohammed VI, perhaps it was contrary to the best symbol of reconciliation between victims of the former rule with the censors of the new era. This concord was it then that front? The white hand of the former opponent of the new reign he was a fool's bargain? Finally, the last silences Serfaty Were censorship or injury, or muzzling contrition? His legend will in any case been tarnished by memories well delivered, over the years by his former comrades Activism and imprisonment, which describe a brilliant mind, but dogmatic, tyrannical and lonely ... like any charismatic leader. The lesson is perhaps that in Morocco, Jews are our artists, royal advisers, bankers, jewelers, officials, traders ... but political opponents, never ever.
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