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Source: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/199697,moroccan-court-bans-pro-israeli-berber-party.html
Moroccan Court Bans Pro-Israel Berber Party
[DPA/Earth Times] A Moroccan court Thursday banned the Democratic Amazigh Moroccan Party (PDAM), which had been established in July, on the grounds that the law did not allow parties based on religion, language or ethnicity. The party had championed full normalization of Morocco's relations with Israel and its founder, Ahmed Dgharni, sparked a scandal in December by visiting Tel Aviv for a political conference. PDAM sought to represent Morocco's Imazighen (plural of Amazigh), also known as Berbers, regarded as the original inhabitants of North Africa before the arrival of Arabs and Islam. Many estimates put the number of Imazighen at about 35% of Morocco's population of more than 30 million, but most Moroccans have at least some Amazigh blood.