Between Pretended Sovereignty and Betrayal of Normalization: Activist Exposes the Moroccan Regime’s Contradictions Over Gaza, Iran and National Loyalty
By Dr. Hana Saada
In a stark reflection of the era of “Normalized Morocco,” defending just and universal causes has increasingly become tantamount to being accused of “betraying national interests.” As Rabat increasingly aligns with the Zionist-American axis, state-controlled media and digital propaganda machinery have unleashed vicious campaigns against dissenting voices. The latest victim of this orchestrated harassment is university professor and human rights activist Latifa Bouhssini, targeted alongside her family for openly supporting Gaza and opposing Western aggression against Iran.
Bouhssini’s critique cuts to the heart of a profound political contradiction. She challenges the false narrative propagated by the regime’s digital apparatchiks, which claims that solidarity with the wider Arab and Muslim world is somehow counter to Morocco’s interests. According to Bouhssini, the true national interest lies in breaking the chains of dependency, halting the hemorrhage of normalization, and reclaiming sovereignty—not in bowing to clandestine foreign agendas. “True patriotism,” she asserts, “resides in confronting authoritarian overreach, tackling systemic corruption, and demanding equitable wealth distribution—not in echoing decisions taken behind closed doors that undermine the people’s will.”
In a powerful retort to the slander campaigns, Bouhssini reminded the public that Morocco is not the private fiefdom of a corrupt oligarchy. It is a nation whose citizens pay taxes and possess an undeniable right to hold those in power accountable. The attempt to privatize the public sphere and monopolize the concept of “national loyalty” for the benefit of a self-serving elite undermines genuine national stability. Dignity, Bouhssini emphasizes, is inseparable from engagement in justice, rights, and humanity—principles the regime seeks to suppress in favor of a population passive and acquiescent to the sale of its own sovereignty.
The resort to character assassination, online harassment, and targeted defamation against a scholar underscores the regime’s ethical and political bankruptcy. When it cannot persuade Moroccans of the merits of normalization or the supposed benefits of its external alliances, it resorts to digital thuggery to silence principled voices. Yet Bouhssini’s message resonates with clarity and force: intimidation will not deter defenders of justice. The struggle for consciousness waged by Morocco’s free-thinking intelligentsia represents the final bastion against the systemic erosion of national and moral autonomy.
This confrontation highlights a disturbing evolution in the notion of “national loyalty” in Morocco in 2026—where proximity to the Zionist entity and complicity with neocolonial networks increasingly defines patriotism. Bouhssini’s unwavering defense of Gaza and Iran embodies a principled resistance to Morocco’s coerced alignment and a defense of the country’s threatened sovereignty. Her message to the entrenched oligarchy is unequivocal: repression will not redefine betrayal as patriotism, and a populace aware of its exploited resources and stifled freedoms recognizes the true adversary—the domestic forces that steal, silence, and suppress—rather than those resisting imperialist aggression abroad.
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