Generation Z Shakes the Moroccan Throne
(Translated)

Al-Rayah Newspaper - Issue 568 - 08/10/2025 CE
By: Ustadh Ahmad Al-Khatwani

At a time when America is encroaching on the Arab Levant (ash-Sham), and through the Jewish entity, it is wreaking havoc, killing, destroying, and corrupting the land. America is relying on the eight traitorous rulers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, and Indonesia, who have blessed Trump's diabolical plan to eliminate the cause of Palestine and make the Jewish entity the master of the region and the sole deciding authority there. At this very moment, a youth revolution is erupting on the other side of the Arab world, particularly in the Maghreb region, shaking the foundations of the most brutal and ferocious police regimes ever established there, the most oppressive and repressive of its people, the most subservient to the West and the most normalized with the Jewish entity.

The Kingdom of Morocco, which has been oppressing the people to the point of subjugation, has always been viewed by the West as an example of stability and an advanced model for preserving colonialist influence in Morocco and maintaining it for decades. Morocco is one of the few major countries that survived the tsunami of the Arab revolutions in its first wave.

Today, it is being haunted by a group of promising young people, now known as Gen Z. This is an age group of young adults who are adopting new approaches to mobilizing interests, relying on an easy-to-use social media application to mobilize crowds.

The name of this application is Discord, and one of its most prominent features is the anonymity of its subscribers, using decentralized collectives such as Gen Z 212 and Morocco Youth Voice. The number 212 is the international dialing code for Morocco. Gen Z is a demographic term referring to the millennial generation, meaning those born after 1997 until 2012. This means that the ages of these young people leading the popular movement range between 15 and 25 years.

This generation has not been immersed in humiliation, nor drowned in the mire of political realism, as the generations before it. It has not tasted the bitterness of defeat that burned the generations before it, like all other Muslim peoples. It is like a blank slate that has not yet been tainted.

Gen Z 212 is driven by identifying specific goals and interests that they formulate as hashtags or trends and circulate as posts and demands through social media, urging people to take to the streets to demonstrate against the government. These campaigns have been met with widespread public response, with a flood of mobilization sweeping across major Moroccan cities such as Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Meknes, Tangier, Agadir, and others. In less than two weeks since the start of these mass demonstrations, Gen Z 212 has used four trends or adopted interests, respectively:

1- The Al Hoceima earthquake: This earthquake occurred in the Moroccan region in September 2023 and revealed the fragility of the country’s infrastructure and the government’s failure to assist those affected, who remain in tents to this day after losing their homes. Gen Z invested the catastrophic effects of this earthquake for the residents of that region, expressing their solidarity with those affected by blaming the government for its negligence and inaction in meeting people's needs. They pressured officials to act to rescue those awaiting state assistance. Gen Z 212 stood out for their support of the earthquake victims, including the displaced, the affected, and those who lost their homes, as if they were a popular leadership guiding the people against a corrupt state.

2- Ayat Boujmaz: This mountainous region comprises a village and a valley in the High Atlas in the Azilal region of Morocco. Its residents demanded the provision of basic services such as education, health, and infrastructure. Gen Z 212 embraced their demands, and they marched in a large march to the capital, Rabat. Many others joined them in the march, which had a significant media impact among the public.

3- The death of six pregnant women in a Moroccan government hospital due to the deterioration of health services, sparking widespread public anger among the population. Gen Z 212 adopted the incident and embraced it as a vital national interest, exposing the regime's negligence in providing even minimal health services. They held the regime fully responsible for these deaths and organized protests.

4- Constructing a sports stadium, Hassan II Stadium, with a capacity of 115,000 spectators at a cost of 500 million US dollars in the first phase alone, while the cost of the second phase is estimated at 320 million dollars. Gen Z 212 explained that this huge sum of money should have been spent on more vital and essential sectors instead of sports stadiums, such as health and education, which are already completely neglected sectors.

Slogans were raised such as “Health First... We Don’t Want the World Cup” and “Stadiums are there, but where are hospitals?”

The government is spending vast sums on welfare and secondary projects that do not benefit society, while essential basic needs are lacking. This represents a grave governmental failure.

Gen Z 212 has benefited from such approaches to lead society in a revolt against the regime.

These are the four trends, or rather the four vital interests, that Gen Z 212 has embraced in Morocco, mobilizing the Moroccan street, embarrassing the government and the king, and causing them to stumble blindly in their behavior to confront this generation, which has surprised them with its bold and innovative accountability.

It is not unlikely that the vital interests of this Gen Z 212 will gradually develop to include the idea of ​​overthrowing the regime and establishing an Islamic State in its place.