Tens of young people from different backgrounds, including Moroccans, were involved in a series of riots in the Netherlands last week. The riots are believed to be triggered by feelings of exclusion and tenacious stereotypes.
In several neighborhoods in Utrecht, groups of young Dutch-Moroccans took to the streets, destroying public property and engaging in riots. One of these groups was stopped by an Islamic center in Leidsche Rijn.
On the 7th and 8th of July 1948, less than a month after the formation of the State of Israel, anti-Jewish riots erupted in two Moroccan cities namely Jerada and Oujda leading to the death of 42 Moroccan Jews.
After a Moroccan-Dutch family was attacked by a group of young people, authorities in a Dutch fishing town warned against new clashes.
On Sunday 1st of October, Spain tried hard to ban the Catalan independence referendum led by the Generalitat de Catalunya and approved by the parliament of Catalonia. The referendum was deemed illegal by the constitutional court of Spain and voters were met by the chillingly brutal police action. History is repeating itself as in 1909, Madrid violently repressed Catalans, who refused to be sent as reinforcements when Spain renewed military-colonial activity in Morocco on 9 July, in what is
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