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Jews and their property was identified and included in a special list. 4
While the Vichy Government clearly and intentionally discriminated
against the Jews, the Muslims also suffered discrimination
in many ways. Moroccan natives were treated differently than the
European ruling elites, which further enhanced their solidarity with
the Jews.
For example, as stated by Simon Levy during
the “Mohammed V Righteous among the
“While the Vichy
Government was Nations” conference (2011), Moroccan Jews
enforcing new
and Muslims were not allowed to enter to
discriminatory laws public swimming pools where Europeans
in Morocco, Sultan were swimming. 5 Those anti-Jewish laws
Mohammed V expressed in Morocco were published in the ‘Bulletin
on many occasions Officiel’ by the Vichy Government and were
his support for his observed as State law.
Moroccan Jewish
While the Vichy Government was enforcing
subjects against the
new discriminatory laws in Morocco, Sultan
Vichy regime.”
Mohammed V expressed on many occasions
his support for his Moroccan Jewish subjects
against the Vichy regime.
One such occasion can be found in a telegram retrieved by Haim
Zafrani in 1985, in the archives of the Quai d’Orsay. This official
document entitled “Dissidence” was signed on 24 May 1941 by René
Touraine, a civil servant in the French Residence of the Vichy Government
in Rabat.
In this document, Touraine mentions that the Sultan refused to
apply Vichy laws in Morocco, as the Sultan claimed that he did not
have Jews or Muslims as subjects but only Moroccan subjects. The
telegram said:
Credible sources informed us that the relations between the Sultan
of Morocco and the French authorities became much tenser
the day the Residence put into application the decree of measures
against the Jews despite the strict opposition of the Sultan.