Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), January 10, 2025.

Join the Global Pressure Campaign.

We call on you to take immediate action to pressure the repressive Moroccan authorities to immediately release Moroccan human rights defender and agricultural engineer Ismail Lghazaoui, who is unjustly imprisoned for exercising his constitutional right to freedom of expression. His tireless advocacy for Palestinian rights has made him a target of repression by the authoritarian Moroccan regime, which is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people through its shameful normalization and military alliance with apartheid Israel.

Ismail’s crime? Calling for protests against the docking of ships carrying American military equipment for Israel’s genocidal forces—ships that were denied entry by the Spanish state but welcomed by Moroccan ports.

 On December 10, International Human Rights Day, Ismail was sentenced to a year in prison, following an unfair trial aimed at silencing voices of dissent against the Moroccan regime’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide. His next appeal session is scheduled for January 15, 2025, it is crucial to intensify our pressure now.

We must not remain silent while human rights defenders like Ismail are criminalized for standing up against complicity in genocide. His detention is part of a broader crackdown by the Moroccan regime on activists who reject normalization with Israel and stand in solidarity with Palestine. The absolute majority of the people of Morocco have steadily supported the Palestinian liberation struggle.

Take Action Now:

1. Join the postcard initiative of our Moroccan BDS partners: Download the postcard calling for Ismail’s release. Send it by post, as an email, or via social media to Moroccan embassies worldwide, demanding his immediate freedom and an end to the repression of Palestine supporters.
2. Find your own ways to protest: send petitions, make calls or organize protests in front of Moroccan embassies to
   demand Ismail’s immediate release and an end to Morocco’s complicity in Israel’s atrocity crimes.
3. Let’s make more noise about Ismail — and all prisoners of conscience arrested for defending Palestinian human rights and protesting against complicity in genocide!
    

Let’s amplify Ismail’s case and show that the world stands with those who resist oppression, from Morocco to Palestine.

Click here to download the postcard!

The nonviolent BDS movement for freedom, justice and equality is supported by the absolute majority in Palestinian society. BDS rejects all forms of racism and racial discrimination.