Columnist Mehdi Ghezzar, speaking on RMC’s Grandes Gueules, accused André Azoulay, Advisor to the King of Morocco, of being the “real leader of Morocco”, controlled by the “Zionist entity”.
In a broadcast on the Algerian channel AL24, columnist Mehdi Ghezzar, who appears on RMC’s Grandes Gueules, launched into a veritable diatribe against the Jewish advisor to the King of Morocco.
The Algerian columnist for RMC’s “Grandes Gueules”, Mehdi Gezzar, participated in the anti-Semitic lynching of André Azoulay, while propagating several conspiracy theories with anti-Semitic tropes.
As demonstrations are held every week, Mehdi Ghezzar claimed that Moroccans would be banned from demonstrating for Palestine because of a supposed royal decree. He agreed when the presenter suggested that the hidden hand behind this decree would be that of André Azoulay, Moroccan Jewish advisor to the King: “Zionist flies” would act, Morocco would be “remote-controlled by the Zionist entity” and would be under the influence of a “party foreign to the Moroccan population” while Algeria, for its part, would resist the “Zionist diktat”. Azoulay would be the “real leader of Morocco”, (sic), remote-controlled by the “Zionist entity”. A hateful rhetoric towards the Jewish advisor to the King of Morocco which illustrates to what extent anti-Semitism remains deeply rooted in certain Algerian media.
As a reminder, André Azoulay, Moroccan, founder in 1970 of a group of Jewish intellectuals calling for the creation of a Palestinian state, is regularly the target of anti-Semitic attacks by the Algerian media. Taking up the classics of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Algerian press frequently presents him as “the real shadow leader” of Morocco.
André Azoulay, born on April 17, 1941 in Essaouira, Morocco, in a Berber Jewish family, is a former journalist, an economist and a Moroccan politician. His surname is purely Berber, it comes from the word “izil” which means “beautiful” or “good” in Amazigh. He has been very attentive to the demands of the Amazigh cultural movement and he is a fervent defender of cultural and linguistic diversity in Morocco.
Advisor to the sovereigns Hassan II and Mohammed VI, husband of the writer Katia Brami, with whom he has a daughter, Audrey, Advisor for culture and communication at the Élysée Palace under the presidency of François Hollande. Azoulay is at the origin of the program for the transformation of the city of Essaouira. He chairs in particular the Essaouira-Mogador Association and the Printemps musical des alizés.
André Azoulay is President-elect of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures, based in Alexandria, Egypt. He is a member of the Committee of Elders for the Alliance of Civilizations at the UN, Deputy President of the Foundation of Three Cultures and Three Religions, based in Seville, Spain, and a Trustee of the Mediterranean Forum and the Shimon Peres Center for Peace.
On April 4, 2013, the city of Marseille, as European Capital of Culture, awarded its Peace Medal to the President of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures, André Azoulay, “ambassador of the citizen of the Mediterranean.”
André Azoulay has served as Advisor to the King of Morocco since 1991. Before being called by the late King Hassan II, he worked alongside him on the economic and financial issues of the Kingdom.
In his capacity as Advisor, first to the late King Hassan II (1991-1999) and since that date alongside King Mohammed VI, André Azoulay notably contributed to the implementation of the economic and financial reform program implemented by the Kingdom of Morocco since the early 1990s. This program has helped to consolidate the country’s performance and macroeconomic balances. Largely associated with the privatization and deregulation plan implemented for Morocco since 1993, A. Azoulay has at the same time worked to promote and rationalize the role of national and international private investment to make it the engine of growth for the Moroccan economy.
In addition to his professional responsibilities, André Azoulay has campaigned for over half a century for the creation of a Palestinian state and for a dialogue that is respectful of all, between the Arab-Muslim world and the Jewish communities in Europe, the United States, and more broadly the Arab and Jewish diasporas throughout the world.
