Moroccan port workers’ union calls for boycott of Maersk ship over arms deliveries to Israel
Amid growing public anger in Morocco over Israel’s deadly assault on Palestinians in Gaza, a prominent Moroccan port workers’ union has demanded a boycott of the Maersk Nexoe—a Danish cargo ship accused of carrying US military supplies to occupied Palestine.
Affiliated with Morocco’s prominent Labour Union (UMT), the Port Workers’ Union urged Casablanca dockworkers to reject any unloading or servicing operations for the vessel upon its April 18 arrival.
The union said in a statement that facilitating the ship’s passage would make individuals “direct accomplices in the genocidal war against the Palestinian people.”
Earlier this week, a group of prominent scholars and clerics—many linked to the Islamist movement Al-Adl Wal Ihssan—issued a joint religious edict, prohibiting the docking of vessels suspected of carrying military cargo to the Israeli-occupied territories.
The Maersk Nexoe is reportedly believed to be facilitating the transport of spare parts for F-35 fighter jets to the occupying regime.
Originally shipped from Houston on the American vessel Maersk Detroit, the equipment is allegedly heading to Nevatim airbase in the southern occupied territories, which serves as a primary launch site for the Israeli Air Force’s Gaza operations.
The Moroccan Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has also called on maritime workers in Morocco, Spain and Turkey – potential stopovers for these vessels – to implement identical boycott measures.
Growing public outrage over both the Gaza war and Morocco’s Israeli relations has sparked protests across Rabat, Casablanca, and Tangier, with demonstrators demanding an end to all diplomatic and economic ties with the Israeli regime.
They called on their leaders to end all ties with the regime, established under the US-brokered Abraham Accords, with protesters calling such ties “treason.”
Morocco joined the so-called Abraham Accords in late 2020, formalizing relations with Israel in exchange for US support for its control of Western Sahara.
The North African country has officially called for an immediate and lasting cessation of the war in Gaza, without severing its ties with Israel.
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