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Aug 16, 2026, 12:35 AM

Ceuta is occupied, but Morocco’s keffiyists don’t care

Morocco’s keffiyists will march for every occupied land on earth, except their own. (AI-generated).

There is a species of political activism – performative, selective, and exquisitely comfortable – that flourishes in Morocco’s cities every time a crisis erupts thousands of kilometers away, and that vanishes into absolute silence the moment the crisis sits...

Aug 14, 2026, 6:53 PM

Ceuta is Moroccan, and the Israelification of its crisis changes nothing

Anyone with little sense of the geography who first heard of a “migration crisis into Ceuta” might reasonably have imagined desperate migrants reaching mainland Spain – only to discover, perhaps with some astonishment, that Ceuta is quite literally a city on the Moroccan coast, separated from the rest of Spain by the Mediterranean and distinguished from its Moroccan surroundings chiefly by the fact that Madrid still governs it. (AI-generated).

I am late to this – partly because I was away on summer vacation, but also deliberately so, because the sheer density of bad analysis, conspiratorial reasoning, and historical amnesia that followed the events of July 30-31 in Ceuta...

Aug 12, 2026, 11:01 AM

Israel Must Stop Competing Against Itself Before It Lists IAI and Rafael

Israel built the rivalry between Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to produce superiority. It should not discount its own assets for a foreign buyer. Shay Gal, formerly Senior Adviser to Israel’s Minister of Economy and...

Aug 5, 2026, 4:18 AM

Danon Did Sánchez a Favor

Israel is right to despise Pedro Sánchez. But mistaking him for Spain, and cheering an assault on Spanish soil, is a gift to the very forces pulling the two countries apart. • • • On July 30, I was in Cambridge...

Aug 3, 2026, 1:19 PM

Europe Must Defend Its Borders, Not Spain’s Empire

Ceuta exposed the bargain beneath Europe’s border: Spain retains an African empire, Morocco keeps it governable, and Brussels mistakes outsourced control for strategy. Turkey weaponises migration; Rabat commits the more humiliating failure, discounting national power into grants, endorsements and...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 1, 2026, 10:07 AM

Spain Lost Ceuta: Morocco Must Now Finish the Job

Spain has lost control of Ceuta. On July 30, 2026, Madrid’s sovereignty over its Northern African colonial enclave evaporated as tens of thousands of Moroccan nationals—primarily military-aged men, alongside subsidized families—swam around the Tarajal breakwater, bypassed maritime defenses on...

Aug 1, 2026, 9:21 AM

A crisis without Israel, briefly

Migrants cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)

For one afternoon Spain was consumed by a crisis that had nothing to do with Israel. Then Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations volunteered

Jul 31, 2026, 10:56 PM

Spain’s Border Crisis; Its Hypocrisy on Israel

This week, Spain faced a mass breach of its own border. Its response revealed exactly what the Spanish government believes about sovereignty when Spanish territory is at risk. Beginning on July 30, tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco...

Jul 19, 2026, 2:14 AM

The Sumud Flotilla’s new mission: casting Morocco as the Israel of Africa

On July 14, the Global Sumud Flotilla announced that it would release a 14-minute documentary titled “One Struggle: Western Sahara” on July 16. (AI-generated using content from Wikimedia Commons).

On July 14, the Global Sumud Flotilla announced that it would release a 14-minute documentary titled “One Struggle: Western Sahara” on July 16. The sprawling maritime coalition, which has spent the better part of a year sailing across the...

Jul 15, 2026, 11:49 AM

Israel now needs a Moroccan prime minister

Gadi Eisenkot, currently emerging as the leading challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the upcoming election, 2023. Elad Malka / Wikimedia Commons.

There is an old saying, attributed to Morocco’s King Hassan II, that captures something no diplomatic communiqué ever could: “When a Jew leaves Morocco, we lose a citizen, but we gain an ambassador.” It is a beautiful sentiment, generous...

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