In a move branded both provocative and unacceptable, the page presenting itself as the Global Sumud Flotilla announced plans to release a video titled “Western Sahara: One Struggle,” originally set to air on the evening of Wednesday, July 15, 2026, as the opening episode of a series called “One Struggle.” The video explicitly and brazenly places the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on equal footing with the aggression carried out by the Polisario, an Arab terrorist gang, while branding the Kingdom of Morocco an “occupier” of its southern provinces. This was no slip of the tongue or editorial misstep. It was a calculated political message from an organization that had until then wrapped itself in humanitarian credentials while, in reality, advancing a separatist, Arabist agenda aimed at annexing Amazigh land. But the moment the page ran into the wave of Moroccan outrage it triggered, it beat a hasty retreat and pulled the video in record time—a move that reveals nothing but the cowardice of those who level accusations and then run from accountability the instant they face a real backlash.
What is both laughable and infuriating is that no one seems to know who actually made the decision to publish this hostile video. The Moroccans involved with the flotilla were never consulted—worse, they weren’t even informed. They were simply ignored, as though their voices counted for nothing. That alone lays bare the true nature of this so-called “humanitarian, democratic collective”: decisions made behind closed doors, by hidden hands serving other, quasi-colonial agendas, all concealed behind a facade of solidarity with Palestine and charity cruises.
Since the very first day of the assault on Gaza, Morocco has done far more than talk. It is the country whose king, Mohammed VI, has personally chaired the Al-Quds Committee for decades. It is also the first country in the world whose diplomacy succeeded in opening a direct land corridor to deliver humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, with explicit Israeli authorization—a feat no other state has managed to replicate. The Kingdom has sent hundreds of tons of food and medical aid, mobilizing its diplomatic, financial, and popular resources in the service of Gaza, while many other countries settled for slogans and empty rhetorical one-upmanship. Moroccans themselves, out of their own pockets and through public donations, have contributed millions of dirhams to this effort.
Today, those same Moroccans are discovering that the very organization they stood behind has stabbed them in the back. This slide comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the true ideological lineage of some of those running the initiative: a toxic blend of Marxist-Leninist thought and classic Arab nationalism, an outlook that sees Morocco as nothing more than an “occupying state” over Amazigh territory, one to be dismantled. It’s the same script mechanically recited by Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian organizations mired in that same Arabist ideology—one that willfully ignores the fundamental difference between genuine colonial occupation and a Moroccan territory that has reclaimed its territorial integrity with full historical and legal legitimacy.
More troubling still, this separatist Arabist narrative deliberately glosses over irrefutable historical facts: the Moroccan Sahara is not Arab land, as Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita stated plainly, without hedging, from Abidjan in 2017. It is, rather, a natural and authentic extension of the broader Amazigh space that encompasses the Souss and the Atlas, as the region’s toponymy attests throughout. The archaeological site of Laghchiwate, in Smara province, with its hundreds of rock engravings and Tifinagh inscriptions dating back to prehistoric times, stands as striking physical proof of the land’s genuinely Amazigh identity—not some imported Arab one, as proponents of Arab nationalism and separatism are today trying to pass off with blatant ideological dishonesty.
One question remains: how many more Moroccans will accept being humiliated, continuing to fund and support an initiative that tried to betray them openly, exploiting their national cause in service of a separatist, Arabist agenda that does not represent them?
